Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Haplodrassus  Chamberlin, 1922   43 species

Haplodrassus rufipes (Lucas, 1846)

Description
Male

Colour as in females, a bit darker. Chelicerae with one large and wide tooth on the promargin and two teeth on the retromargin.

Prosoma length: 3.5 mm.

Female

Resembles Haplodrassus signifier. Prosoma longer than patella and tibia of leg IV together, yellow-brown, with blue shine and yellow-grey hairs. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on pro- and 2 on retromargin. Sternum brown-yellow. Opisthosoma grey-brown with yellow-white hairs, posteriorly widened. Legs brown-yellow, metatarsus and tarsus III and IV reddish brown.

Prosoma length: 3.5 mm.

Body length female: 12.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libyia, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| France   (Bosmans et al., 2018) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans et al., 2018; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Benhalima S, Hervé C (2018) The genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Mediterranean and the Maghreb in particular (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) Zootaxa 4451: 1-67 pdf

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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