Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Cryptodrassus  Miller, 1943   4 species

Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh, 1935)

Description

Pale body colour, dorsoventrally strikingly flat.

Body length male: 1.9 mm
Body length female: 1.9 mm
Additional information

Probably living endogeic in crevices, apparently bound to xerothermic slopes in Central Europe

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France to Greece and Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Zamani et al., 2025b) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Ledoux & Rollard, 2004) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011; Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Moldovan, 1998) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2021b; Ponomarev, 2017; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1999) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2010) |||
References

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2010) Cryptodrassus hungaricus and Leptodrassex memorialis from Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 19: 189-197 pdf

Ledoux J C, Snazell R (unpubl.)

Ledoux J-C, Rollard C (2004) De araneis Galliae I.1, Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh). Revue Arachnologique 15: 16 pdf

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

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2017) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of steppe and meadow-steppe habitats of gully and ravine ecosystems of the valley of the Don River lower reaches. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88: 118-131 pdf

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, Alekseev S K, Komarov Y E, Shmatko V Y (2021b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Terek River valley in Mozdok District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17: 351-374 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Van Keer J, Van Keer K, De Koninck H, Ramel G (2010) The arachnofauna (Araneae) of wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62: 141-160 pdf

Weiss I, Moldovan I (1998) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus der Siebenbürgischen Heide (Arachnida: Araneae). Mauritania (Altenburg) 16: 521-525 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

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M (2025b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20: 132-137 pdf

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