Triangle Hammock-spider (Saaristoa firma)

Key Details

Taxonomic Groups: Invertebrate > spider (Araneae) > Spider
Red List Status: Least Concern (Not Relevant) [LC(nr)]
D5 Status: Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022)
Section 41 Status: (not listed)
Taxa Included Synonym: (none)
UKSI Recommended Name: Saaristoa firma
UKSI Recommended Authority: (O.P.-Cambridge, 1905)
UKSI Recommended Qualifier: (none specified)
Red List Citation: Harvey et al., 2017
Notes on taxonomy/listing: (none)

Criteria

Question 1: Does species need conservation or recovery in England?
Response: No
Justification: LC: no evidence of overall decline. Losses, possibly climate-related, in the S heaths more than compensated by gains in the north and west.
Question 2: Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions?
Response: No
Justification: Too abundant to justify species-specific recovery actions
Question 3: At a landscape scale, would the species benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages?
Response: N/A
Justification:

Species Assessment

Not relevant as no Key Actions defined.

Key Actions

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Acknowledgment:
Data used on this website are adapted from Threatened species recovery actions 2025 baseline (JP065): Technical report and spreadsheet user guide (Natural England, 2025). Available here.