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 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1914)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Pedipalp without embolic part, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Palpal tibia, dorso-lateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Breitling 2020)
Epigyne
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Epigyne, variation
(Simon 1914)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
Vulva
(Bosmans et al. 2018)
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.
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 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
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
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
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104
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
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 01-08-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 19-12-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 06-08-2018 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 09-08-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |