Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes caspius Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 4.3 mm.

Body length male: 9.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.9-3.8 mm.

Body length female: 6.5-10.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Dimitrov & Naumova, 2021) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar et al., 2017; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Kartaler M (2017) A new gnaphosid spider record from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Serket 15: 147-149 pdf

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 pdf

Dimitrov D, Naumova M (2021) A faunistic survey of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. Arachnology 18: 689-699 pdf

Khasayeva S I, Huseynov E F (2019) New records of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18: 357-361 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, Tsvetkov A (2006) New and rare spiders of family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) from a southeast of Europe. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 2: 5-13 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

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