Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassyllus  Chamberlin, 1922   18 species

Drassyllus crimeaensis  Kovblyuk, 2003

Description

Palp brown. Tibial apophysis and conductor are characteristic. Epigyne characteristic. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown, yellow to copper-coloured except for tarsus and metatarsus. Opisthosoma grey, with brown scutum.

Body length male: 4.7-6.9 mm
Body length female: 4.8-7.2 mm
Additional information

In steppe grass; under stones in Phrygana (Chios)

Frequency: Not frequent

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North Macedonia, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan, Iran?
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova et al., 2021) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 pdf

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

Kovblyuk M M (2003b) The spider genus Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Crimean fauna, with description of a new species (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 12: 23-28 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Gnelitsa V, Terekhova V, Iosypchuk A (2021) New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55: 95-112 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

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
02-05-2021 Image insert
01-05-2021 Distribution update Detail
16-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
21-10-2015 Distribution update Detail