Drassyllus shaanxiensis Platnick & Song, 1986
Description
Male
Prosoma oval and dark brown, black lines radiate from a short line-shaped median furrow. Chelicerae with four promarginal and three retromarginal teeth. Sternum oval, yellowish brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark with three pairs of sigilla and five chevrons, and reddish brown anterior scutum. Palp with nonbifid terminal apophysis, triangle median apophysis, large and coiled embolus, large membranous conductor, and a sharp retrolateral tibial apophysis; cymbium with one large spine at the anterior end. Prosoma length: 2.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.9 mm.
Female
Colour and general appearance the same as in males. Abdomen dark with three pairs of sigilla and two indistinct chevrons, no scutum. Epigyne with small midpiece and wider anterior epigynal margin. Prosoma length: 2.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.8 mm.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kamura 1990)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kamura 1990)
Epigyne
(Platnick & Song 1986)
Epigyne
(Kamura 1990)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Platnick & Song 1986)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kamura 1990)
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
Kamura T (1990) Notes on Japanese gnaphosid spiders (IV): One newly recorded species and two little-known species of Japan. Atypus 95: 32-38 
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Platnick N I, Song D X (1986) A review of the Zelotine spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of China. American Museum Novitates 2848: 1-22
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.
Ponomarev A V, Alekseev S K, Kozminykh V O, Shmatko V Y (2017a) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Stavropol Province, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 155-173
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2