Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   70 species

Gnaphosa alacris  Simon, 1878

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, anterior to fovea with 2 darker spots. Prosoma length: 1.7-3.2 mm. Prosoma length: 1.7-3.2 mm. Chelicerae bronze-coloured. Sternum dark orange, margin with reddish line. Legs orange. Opisthosoma covered with greyish hairs and black bristles, venter with 2 longitudinal stripes, running from epigastric furrow to the spinnerets.

Body length male: 3.2-6.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.0-2.7 mm.Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 4.8-9.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia
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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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Di Franco F (1992) Gnaphosidae di Castelporziano e del Parco Nazionale del Circeo (Arachnida, Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 23: 213-233 pdf

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393 pdf

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
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25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail