Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes chybyndensis Esyunin & Tuneva, 2002

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with grey margins, prosoma length:  3.3-3.9 mm, prosoma width: 2.35-2.7 mm. Sternum grey-yellow. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 7.25-8 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, prosoma length: 6.75 mm, prosoma width: 5.10 mm. Sternum dark brown. Opisthosoma grey, with long orange hairs on anterior edge.

Body length female: 15.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Kazakhstan, Iran
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Tuneva, 2002) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Tuneva T K (2002) A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 1. Genera Drassodes Westring, 1851 and Sidydrassus gen.n. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 169-180 pdf

Esyunin S L, Tuneva T K (2020) A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 6. Taxonomic remarks and new records, with description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 103-120 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Dvadnenko K V (2013) Notes on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of the southeast of Russian plain and the Caucasus with the description of a new species of the genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 (Gnaphosidae). Vestnik Yuzhnogo Nauchnogo Tsentra 9: 47-56 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
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