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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   44 species

Drassodes fugax (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026896

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Description
Body length male: 7-8 mm
Female

Lateral almost half as large as median eyes. Chelicerae with 3 prolateral and 1 retrolateral teeth. Epigyne resembles D. lapidosus. Depression twice as wide as long, widely elevated lateral margins build convex, anteriorly rebordered arches. Median ridge of depression posteriorly strongly elongated, reverse T-shaped. Small oval tubercles in both halves of depression. Prosoma length: 4.0 mm, prosoma width: 2.9 mm.

Body length female: 10-13.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Central Asia, China
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

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male Embolus and terminal apophysis
(Barrientos et al. 2017)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Simon 1914)

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female Epigyne
(Simon 1914)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Hervé & Rollard 2009)

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) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Moya J, García-Sarrión R, Uribarri I, Melic A, Prieto C E, Moraza M L, Zaragoza J A (2017) Arácnidos del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 107-138 pdf

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

Hervé C, Rollard C (2009) Drassodes species from the Parc national du Mercantour (French Alps), with the description of a new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 627-642 pdf

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 pdf

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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
12-08-2017 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail