Bathyphantes gracilipes van Helsdingen, 1977
Peaks large sheet weaver
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Sherwood et al., 2025)
Last record: March 1967 (Sherwood et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Van Helsdingen, P. J. (1977). Linyphiidae. In: Basilewsky, P. (ed.). La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Quatrième partie. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie 220: 168-183.
Other references:
Ashmole, P. and Ashmole, M. (2000). St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, U.K.
Cairns-Wicks, R., Jervois, M. and Kindemba, V. (2016). St. Helena Invertebrate Conservation Strategy 2016-2021. St. Helena National Trust, Environmental Management Division of St. Helena Government, and Buglife.
Mendel, H., Ashmole, N. P. and Ashmole, M. J. (2008). Invertebrates of the Central Peaks and Peak Dale, St Helena. Commissioned by the St Helena National Trust, Jamestown, St Helena.
Sherwood, D., Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C. J., Sharp, A., Pryce, D., White, L. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Bathyphantes gracilipes. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T65881080A67528217. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T65881080A67528217.en. Accessed on 06 August 2026.
Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. and Ashmole, P. (2024). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218
St Helena Government. (2019). The Peaks National Park Conservation Management Plan 2019-2024.
St Helena National Trust and St Helena Government. (2023). St Helena’s Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Strategy 2023-2028.