Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodex  Murphy, 2007   10 species

Drassodex drescoi Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009

Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis with long and slightly curved superior prong. Tip of embolus narrowed. Prosoma length: 4.88 mm.

Body length male: 13.46 mm
Female

Epigynal atrium large and piriform, anterior tongue is missing. Prosoma length: 5.62 mm.

Body length female: 12.02 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Switzerland, Italy
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Distribution List
France   (Hervé et al., 2009) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Hervé et al., 2009) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) |||
References

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Hervé C M, Roberts J, Murphy J A (2009) A taxonomic revision of the genus Drassodex Murphy, 2007 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 2171: 1-28 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

Pantini P, Caria M (2025) Contributo alla conoscenza degli Gnaphosidae (Araneae) italiani. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 38: 47-69 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
21-01-2026 Image insert
25-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
20-08-2013 Datasheet update Detail