Drassyllus crimeaensis Kovblyuk, 2003
Description
Palp brown. Tibial apophysis and conductor are characteristic. Epigyne characteristic. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown, yellow to copper-coloured except for tarsus and metatarsus. Opisthosoma grey, with brown scutum.
Body length male: 4.7-6.9 mmBody length female: 4.8-7.2 mm
Additional information
In steppe grass; under stones in Phrygana (Chios)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Tibia, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Epigyne
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Epigyne
(Kovblyuk 2003b)
Epigyne
(Polchaninova et al. 2021)
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
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 
Demircan Aksan N, Topçu A (2022c) A preliminary checklist of the spider fauna of European Türkiye. Serket 19: 39-56
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kovblyuk M M (2003b) The spider genus Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Crimean fauna, with description of a new species (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 12: 23-28
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Gnelitsa V, Terekhova V, Iosypchuk A (2021) New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55: 95-112
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.
Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2