Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassyllus  Chamberlin, 1922   19 species

Drassyllus vinealis (Kulczyński, 1897)

Description
Male

Embolus long, overtopping margin of cymbium. Prosoma brown-yellow. Opisthosoma yellow-brown with brown scuticula.

Body length male: 5.0 mm
Female

Epigyne strongly sclerotised, with swellings in anterior region. 

Body length female: 6.2 mm
Additional information

In grass steppes

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central to Eastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Korea
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Milasowszky et al., 2016) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 pdf

Milasowszky N, Hepner M, Komposch C, Zulka K P (2016) Erstnachweise von Drassyllus vinealis (KulczyńsKi, 1897) und Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae) in Österreich. Beiträge zur Entomofaunistik 17: 163-167 pdf

Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Platnick N I, Song D X (1986) A review of the Zelotine spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of China. American Museum Novitates 2848: 1-22 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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