Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Haplodrassus  Chamberlin, 1922   42 species

Haplodrassus creticus  (Roewer, 1928)

Description
Male

Yellow-brown. Prosoma brown in cephalic part, widening and yellowish in thoracic part. Fovea small, dark. Sternum oval, labium and maxillae longer than wide. Chelicerae brown, with 2 posterior and 1 anterior teeth. Opisthosoma greyish yellow with a light pattern. Palp: tibial apophysis short, truncate. Tegular apophysis characteristic, embolus long, dorsally broadened and truncate. Prosoma length: 1.5-2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.1-2.0 mm.

Body length male: 3.5-4.8 mm
Female

Yellow-brown. Prosoma brown in cephalic part, widening and yellowish in thoracic part. Fovea small, dark. Sternum oval, labium and maxillae longer than wide. Chelicerae brown, with 2 posterior and 1 anterior teeth. Opisthosoma greyish yellow with a light pattern. Epigyne: anterior margin wider than areola. Lateral margins hiding the genital orifices, with almost parallel sclerotizations. Introductory pouches often covered by a mating plug. Prosoma length: 1.8-2.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.5-1.9 mm.

Body length female: 4.3-6.5 mm
Additional information

No specific habitat preference.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
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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.

Greece / Crete   (no references) |||
References

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

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002a) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 559-601 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

Updates
23-01-2020 Distribution update Detail
10-08-2018 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail