Harpactocrates drassoides (Simon, 1882)
Description
Male
Male palp with bent bulbal neck. Embolus stepped, with distal scale. Vulva with straight dorsal edge of aboral sclerite, bulge-like sclerotisation directed vertically. Prosoma reddish. Eyes: PME smaller than the other eyes, PME almost one diameter from PLE, anterior eyes rather less than one diameter apart. Chelicerae with 4 teeth in 2 rows. Legs reddish brown, femur I and II with 3 spines, femur III and IV with 2 series of dorsal spines, tibia III and IV with spines.
Body length male: 9-15 mmFemale
Characters as in male.
Body length female: 9-15 mmAdditional information
In coniferous forests, alder wood, under stones or under bark, in leaf litter of beech and mixed forests.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Bulbus
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)
Tip of bulbus
(Müller 1985)
Vulva
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Aboral sclerite
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)
Aboral sclerite
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)
Gnathocoxae, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 
Ferrández M A (1986) Las especies ibericas del genero Harpactocrates Simon 1914 (Araneida: Dysderidae). Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia, Barcelona 1: 337-348
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Müller H-G (1985) Die moosbewohnenden Araneen eines Fichtenwaldes am Col de la Forclaz-ein Beitrag zur schweizerischen Spinnenfauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 95: 268-272
Pesarini C (unpubl.)
Thaler K, Madlener I (1979) Die Harpactocrates-Arten der Westalpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Dysderidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 52: 359-367
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2