Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   43 species

Drassodes unicolor  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma rusty yellow, with black margins and distinct longitudinal slit. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on pro- and 2 on retromargin. Legs pale yellow, tarsi darker. Opisthosoma pale grey with black-grey hairs. Palp: tibia 3.5x as long as thick, with protruding, slightly curved apophysis which bears an apical pointed tip which itself bears a smaller, median, pointed tip.

Prosoma length: 3.5 mm

Body length male: 4.3-5.3 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. Epigyne: posterior with reniform, laterally with double chitinous bar marginated transversal groove, in which lies a slightly narrower, also reniform lamella.

Prosoma length: 4.0 mm.

Body length female: 9.1-12.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1934) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Caporiacco L di (1934) Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 121-146 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Levy G (2004) Spiders of the genera Drassodes and Haplodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 50: 1-37 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
09-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
27-11-2021 Distribution update Detail
07-10-2019 Distribution update Detail
09-08-2016 Datasheet update Detail