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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassyllus  Chamberlin, 1922   19 species

Drassyllus sur Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038999

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Description

Prosoma grey-brown with a dark V-shaped spot. Legs grey-yellow, tarsi and metatarsi lighter (almost yellow). Opisthosoma dark grey, shiny, with Scutum.

Body length male: 3-3.6 mm
Body length female: 3-4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Russia (Europe, Urals), Kazakhstan, Iran
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tuneva & Esyunin 2003a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tuneva & Esyunin 2003a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Chatzaki & Russell-Smith 2017)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki & Russell-Smith 2017)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Esyunin & Tuneva 2020)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Esyunin & Tuneva 2020)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Esyunin & Tuneva 2020)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Tuneva & Esyunin 2003a)

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female Epigyne
(Esyunin & Tuneva 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Tuneva & Esyunin 2003a)

Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Kovblyuk et al., 2009) ||| Russia, Southern   (Kovblyuk et al., 2009; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Kovblyuk et al., 2009) |||
References

Chatzaki M, Russell-Smith A (2017) New species and new records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Cyprus. Zootaxa 4329: 237-255 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

Esyunin S L, Tuneva T K (2020) A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 6. Taxonomic remarks and new records, with description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 103-120 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Seyyar O, Demir H, Topçu A (2009) New taxonomic and faunistic data on the gnaphosid spiders of Turkey (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 169-187 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

Tuneva T K, Esyunin S L (2003a) A review of the Gnaphosidae fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 3. New species and new records, chiefly from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 11: 223-234 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
25-08-2020 Image insert
21-08-2020 Image insert
14-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2017 Image insert