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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes albicans (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026849

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Description
Male

Tibial apophysis robust, straight and narrowing. Embolus robust, straight and spine-like.

Prosoma brown. Chelicerae with closely arranged posterior teeth. Metatarsus I-II and tarsus I-II ventrally with scopula. Opisthosoma brown.

Body length male: 5.5-13.5 mm
Female

Epigyne with lateral depressions in anterior half, not reaching epigastric furrow. Vulva with almost straight spermatheca. 

Body length female: 10.0-13.5 mm
Additional information

above 1200 m, can be frequent above 1650 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Georgia
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
with maximum activity in late summer
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

species

male Pedipalp
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

species

male Chelicera, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

species

female Epigyne
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

species

female Epigyne
(Simon 1914)

species

female Epigyne
(Birer et al. 2025)

species

female Vulva
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Birer et al. 2025)

Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Chatzaki et al., 2002b) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Birer et al., 2025) |||
References

Birer E, Danışman T, Coşar İ (2025) Drassodes albicans (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), a new record from Türkiye. Serket 20: 453-455 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002b) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae, Araneae) of Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. II. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 603-633 pdf

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 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-05-2025 Image insert
19-05-2025 Distribution insert Detail
19-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
07-05-2020 Distribution update Detail