Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh, 1935)
Description
Pale body colour, dorsoventrally strikingly flat.
Body length male: 1.9 mmBody length female: 1.9 mm
Additional information
Probably living endogeic in crevices, apparently bound to xerothermic slopes in Central Europe
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Weiss & Moldovan 1998)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ledoux & Rollard 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ledoux & Rollard 2004)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Murphy 2007)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Murphy 2007)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Murphy 2007)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Weiss & Moldovan 1998)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Murphy 2007)
Chelicera
(Murphy 2007)
Habitus
(Murphy 2007)
Epigyne
(Ledoux & Rollard 2004)
Epigyne
(Murphy 2007)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev et al. 2021b)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2025b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ledoux & Rollard 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Murphy 2007)
Sternum
(Murphy 2007)
Opisthosoma
(Murphy 2007)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Ledoux & Rollard 2004)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Ledoux & Snazell unpubl.)
Ocular area
(Murphy 2007)
Spinnerets
(Murphy 2007)
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
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 
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
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2010) Cryptodrassus hungaricus and Leptodrassex memorialis from Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 19: 189-197
Ledoux J C, Snazell R (unpubl.)
Ledoux J-C, Rollard C (2004) De araneis Galliae I.1, Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh). Revue Arachnologique 15: 16
Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 605 pp.
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
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
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, 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
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
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
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
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
Weiss I, Moldovan I (1998) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus der Siebenbürgischen Heide (Arachnida: Araneae). Mauritania (Altenburg) 16: 521-525
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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
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