Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassodes  Westring, 1851   43 species

Drassodes natali  Esyunin & Tuneva, 2002

Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis with denticles. Prosoma yellow, with thin grey margin. Chelicerae brown, with 3 teeth on promargin and 2 teeth on retromargin.

Body length male: 6.9 mm
Female

Prosoma with brown cephalic part and yellow-brown thoracic region, prosoma length: 4.1-5.2 mm, prosoma width: 3.2-3.8 mm. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and 2 teeth on retromargin. Sternum dark with thin brown margin. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma light to dark grey, with a brown cardiac mark.

Body length female: 7.1-8.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea
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.

Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Tuneva, 2020) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Tuneva T K (2002) A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 1. Genera Drassodes Westring, 1851 and Sidydrassus gen.n. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 169-180 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

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 (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

Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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