Spider ID help

[sebastianbawn]

Missing Orb Weaver and some sort of crab spider? The first was approx 5mm and the latter approx 3mm.

[Venger]

2: Not a crab spider (Thomisidae) but a Theridiidae, an Episinus spp.

[sebastianbawn]

Thanks Venger, I have read there are 3 species that occur in the Uk. Episinus angulatus which is widespread but not very common. Episinus truncatus where most records are from heathland in southern England and Episinus maculipes that is rare and recorded only from the Isle of Wight and Devon, once was found in Essex in 1929 but not rediscovered.

I would say by those discriptions that mine is most probably, E.angulatus. Shame if it is as it would be nice to be one of the rarer ones lol