13 December 2012

New harvestman for Wales

I collected this large (leg span 114mm) unfamiliar species off Wendell Thomas' front door frame when delivering his Christmas card today. It looks remarkably like Opilio canestriniiwhich according the Spider and Harvestman Recording Scheme website has not been recorded in Wales [id confirmed by Peter Harvey, this being the first Welsh record and to date only noted at 13 other UK sites].

1 comment:

Barry Stewart said...

Mark Winder thinks Greg Jones may have recorded this species in Cardiff a couple of years ago, so worth looking out for elsewhere...