Andy Phillips has confirmed that the specimen I recorded of the large wolf spider Pirata piscatorius last week in the Black Hole at Burton Pond is a first for West Sussex. This is a big impressive spider (at Pevensey, people often mistake them for raft spiders!) so it is surprising that it has been over looked. West Sussex does have plenty of undiscovered species though and the Black Hole is not exactly the most inviting of habitats!

Here is the BAS web page of the spider http://www.arachnida.org.uk/portal/p/Summary/s/Pirata+piscatorius.