Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes serratichelis (Roewer, 1928)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis not present. Embolus slender, guided by transparent lamella.
Prosoma yellow.

Body length male: 2.7-4.2 mm
Female

 Epigyne with small lateral margins. Vulva with bilobed receptacula, with an oval and a roundish chamber. 

Body length female: 3.8-5.6 mm
Additional information

up to 1650 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Israel: is probably Drassodes mylonasi (Chatzaki & Van Keer 2019: 436)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain (Balearic Is.), Italy (Sardinia), Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Georgia, Israel?. Introduced to USA
adults mainly in summer
Figures
Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2026a) ||| Greece   (Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Caria et al., 2021) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2008a; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk et al., 2016) |||
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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

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

Caria M, Pantini P, Alamanni F, Ancona C, Cillo D, Bazzato E (2021) New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 53: 321-331 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

Chatzaki M, Van Keer J (2019) Ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae) from the Greek islands Rodos, Symi and Karpathos, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4646: 434-460 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Gnelitsa V A, Nadolny A A, Kastrygina Z A, Kukushkin, O V (2016) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Karadag Nature Reserve (Crimea). Ekosystemy 3(33): 3-288 pdf

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

Platnick N I, Shadab M U (1976a) A revision of the spider genera Drassodes and Tivodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America. American Museum Novitates 2593: 1-29 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Egidunashvili V (2026a) Spiders in a growing city: new country and regional records of spiders (Araneae) from Tbilisi, Georgia. Caucasiana 5: 31-39 pdf

Seyyar O, Ayyildiz N, Topçu A (2008a) Updated checklist of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Turkey, with zoogeographical and faunistic remarks. Entomological News 119: 509-520 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

Wunderlich J (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640 pdf

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