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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 2004)
Tibial apophysis
(Levy 2004)
Epigyne
(Levy 2004)
Vulva
(Levy 2004)
Distribution List
References
Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 
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
Levy G (2004) Spiders of the genera Drassodes and Haplodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 50: 1-37
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2