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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   43 species

Drassodes difficilis  (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026884

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Description
Female

Legs and pedipalp greyish with conspicuous striped pattern mainly formed by lines of hairs contrasting to hairless parts; femur I with one, femur II with two prolateral spines; femora I and II with two dorsal spines; tibiae and metatarsi I and II with one ventral spine, without pro- nor retrolateral spines; tibiae III and IV with stout prolateral, retrolateral, dorsal and ventral spines; all tarsi scopulated over their total length.

Body length female: 7.80-9.55 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Spain, France, Italy, Turkey?
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & De Boever 2016)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Alderweireldt & De Boever 2016)

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male Median apophysis, ventral view
(Barrientos et al. 2017)

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male Chelicera, ventral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & De Boever 2016)

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female Epigyne
(Barrientos et al. 2017)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & De Boever 2016)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & De Boever 2016)

species

female Vulva
(Barrientos et al. 2017)

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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Alderweireldt M, De Boever C (2016) Description of the unknown female of Drassodes difficilis (Simon, 1878) from Spain with illustrations of the male and some zoogeographical notes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 34-36 pdf

Barrientos J A, Moya J, García-Sarrión R, Uribarri I, Melic A, Prieto C E, Moraza M L, Zaragoza J A (2017) Arácnidos del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 107-138 pdf

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 21 February 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Hervé C, Rollard C (2009) Drassodes species from the Parc national du Mercantour (French Alps), with the description of a new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 627-642 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-07-2017 Image insert
03-01-2017 Image insert
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail