The abdomen is reddish brown with yellow spots and a black median band with white arc-lines.

[3] Clubiona subsultans is normally found under stones and bark and in moss and litter, mostly in coniferous forests.

[3] In Britain it is called Caledonian sac-spider because the native Scots pine forest is the normal habitat.

Recently it was found to have been the commonest spider caught in artificial nestbox traps which were put out in Abernethy Forest to survey for the bee Osmia uncinata.

The main site at Abernethy is now a reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and its primary aim is to develop a self-sustaining native pine forest over the whole potential woodland area.