Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Haplodrassus  Chamberlin, 1922   42 species

Haplodrassus morosus  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Resembles Haplodrassus signifer, but differs in palp morphology and dorsal pattern of opisthosoma. Opisthosoma long-oval, brownish yellow-grey, with lateral and dorsal short, black striae, black suffusions and several sharply angular chevrons posteriorly.

Female

Prosoma pale yellow, anteriorly darker. Legs yellow, legs I and II darker. Opisthosoma long-oval, dull yellowish, dorsally with large dusky brown elongate wedge-shaped marking, followed by a series of indistinct, broad angular lines. Epigyne: rather large and circular opening with longitudinal septum whose margins are strongly angular. Posteriorly with two round, boss-like, glossy prominences.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Israel
Phenology
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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.

Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2008a; Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Levy G (2004) Spiders of the genera Drassodes and Haplodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 50: 1-37 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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
09-08-2016 Datasheet update Detail