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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Haplodrassus  Chamberlin, 1922   43 species

Haplodrassus orientalis (L. Koch, 1866)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026963

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Description
Male

See: http://species-id.net/wiki/Haplodrassus_isaevi

Body length male: 5.4-7.2 mm
Female

Prosoma pale brownish yellow, with yellowish white hairs, eye region darker. Prosoma length: 2.5 mm. Sternum and legs pale brownish yellow. Opisthosoma grey-yellow.

See: http://species-id.net/wiki/Haplodrassus_isaevi

Body length female: 5.4-7.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Georgia, Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2006)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2006)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, dorso-retrolateral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022a)

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male Bulbus, apical view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012b)

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male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Esyunin & Tuneva 2020)

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female Pedipalp
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2006)

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female Epigyne
(L. Koch 1866)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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female Epigyne
(Seropian et al. 2023b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece   (Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Tuneva, 2020) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev & Khnykin, 2013; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2022a; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk et al., 2012b) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Bosmans R, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Benhalima S, Hervé C (2018) The genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Mediterranean and the Maghreb in particular (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) Zootaxa 4451: 1-67 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Esyunin S L, Tuneva T K (2020) A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 6. Taxonomic remarks and new records, with description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 103-120 pdf

Koch L (1866) Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A, Omelko M M (2012b) A review of the spider genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in Crimea (Ukraine) and adjacent areas (Araneae,  Gnaphosidae). Zookeys 205: 59-89 pdf

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 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

Ponomarev A V, Khnykin A S (2013) Spiders (Aranei) of Volgograd sity and its environs. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 2013(4): 109-136 pdf

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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

Seyyar O, Türkeş T, Demir H (2022a) Haplodrassus orientalis (L. Koch, 1866) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new record for the Turkish spider fauna. Serket 18: 331-334 pdf

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 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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