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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodex  Murphy, 2007   10 species

Drassodex heeri (Pavesi, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026903

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Description

Embolus twisted, last embolic loop greater than half of width of bulbus. Prosoma light red-brown, eye region darker. Legs light red-brown, distal leg segments darker. Opisthosoma brown to light red-brown.

Body length male: 8.4-12.4 mm
Body length female: 10.3-15.6 mm
Additional information

From high alpine region to nival zone in the Alps

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: restricted to the Central Alps (Hervé et al. 2009), therefore records from Spain, France, Hungary and Ukraine deleted
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wiehle 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Chelicera
(Murphy 2007)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1967)

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female Epigyne
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1967)

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female Vulva
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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female Vulva
(Hervé et al. 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

Distribution List
Austria   (Hervé et al., 2009) ||| Germany   (Hervé et al., 2009) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Hervé et al., 2009) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 pdf

Hervé C M, Roberts J, Murphy J A (2009) A taxonomic revision of the genus Drassodex Murphy, 2007 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 2171: 1-28 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 605 pp. pdf

Wiehle H (1967) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna V. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 1-36 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-01-2025 Image insert
16-07-2020 Datasheet update Detail
25-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
25-05-2020 Datasheet update Detail