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 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.0-2.7 mm.Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 4.8-9.1 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 1992)
Cymbium and tibia, dorsal view
(Di Franco 1992)
Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)
Epigyne
(Di Franco 1992)
Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva
(Di Franco 1992)
Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
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
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Di Franco F (1992) Gnaphosidae di Castelporziano e del Parco Nazionale del Circeo (Arachnida, Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 23: 213-233
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
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
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].
Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2