Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   43 species

Drassodes lacertosus  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Chelicerae with one large tooth flanked by two small ones on promargin, and large distal boss with two proximal denticles on retromargin. Palp: femur widened proximally, much wider than patella. Small tibial apophysis cone-like. Filamentous part of embolus issues at upper part of tegulum.

Prosoma length: 2.7-5.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.8-3.9 mm.

Body length male: 4.6-5.2 mm
Female

Chelicerae on promargin with large median tooth flanked by two small ones, and retromargin usually with two small denticles. Epigyne: nearly circular margins of broad median septum converge anteriorly into narrow neck-like portion. Spermathecae with round parts covered by small protuberances.

Prosoma length: 4.6-5.2 mm, prosoma width: 3.2-3.5 mm.

Body length female: 9.7-12.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Israel, Syria
Phenology
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2008a; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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

Levy G (2004) Spiders of the genera Drassodes and Haplodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 50: 1-37 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V, Tsvetkov A (2006) New and rare spiders of family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) from a southeast of Europe. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 2: 5-13 pdf

Seyyar O, Ayyildiz N, Topçu A (2008a) Updated checklist of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Turkey, with zoogeographical and faunistic remarks. Entomological News 119: 509-520 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
21-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
09-08-2016 Datasheet update Detail
24-09-2015 Distribution update Detail
16-10-2013 Distribution update Detail