Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes fugax (Simon, 1878)

Description
Body length male: 7-8 mm
Female

Lateral almost half as large as median eyes. Chelicerae with 3 prolateral and 1 retrolateral teeth. Epigyne resembles D. lapidosus. Depression twice as wide as long, widely elevated lateral margins build convex, anteriorly rebordered arches. Median ridge of depression posteriorly strongly elongated, reverse T-shaped. Small oval tubercles in both halves of depression. Prosoma length: 4.0 mm, prosoma width: 2.9 mm.

Body length female: 10-13.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Central Asia, China
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Distribution List
Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

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

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

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
23-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
12-08-2017 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail