Leptodrassus albidus Simon, 1914
Description
Male
Prosoma without black marginal line. Palp: tibial apophysis with a broad base, a round ventral and a dorsal blade-like process. Bulbus complicated, apically armed with closely grouped laminae and often pointed, nearly indistinguishable sclerites. Tegulum with a pointed retrolateral and a complex ventral apophysis. Embolus filiform, its base rising from proximal end of tegulum, running along its prolateral side, mostly hidden by a membrane.
Body length male: 3.7 mmFemale
Prosoma without black marginal line. Epigyne: median cavity covered by a long hood, with a setose base connected to the lateral margins, and with a sclerotized free part that covers almost three quarters of the cavity. Introductory orifices opening in the posterior half of the cavity, covered by the hood. Introductory ducts curved, spermathecae globular.
Additional information
Occurs close to the coast and in degraded phrygana and abandoned cultivations.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco & Pantini 2000)
Pedipalp
(Di Franco & Pantini 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Epigyne
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)
Eyes, dorsal view
(García & Suárez 2019)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Iorio 2017)
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.
References
Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2020) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 3: nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 69-78 
Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Caria M, Pantini P, Alamanni F, Ancona C, Cillo D, Bazzato E (2021) New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 53: 321-331
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Di Franco F, Pantini P (2000) Gnaphosidae dell'Isola di Capraia (Arcipelago Toscano) (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 477-484
Doncea A, Pintilioaie A-H, Neagoe M A, Urák I (2024) Caught in the web: three new crawly records for the Romanian arachnofauna found at south-eastern part of Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» 67 (Supplement 1): 117
García J, Suárez D (2019) A spider survey in a protected area of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) reveals five new records for the island. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 69-76
Iorio E (2017) Inventaire des araignées et opilions de la Réserve Naturelle Régionale de la Pointe Saint-Gildas à Préfailles (Loire-Atlantique) (Arachnida). Invertébrés Armoricains 17: 45-61
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
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
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
Vrenozi B (unpubl.) .
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
Updates
| 06-12-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 02-06-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 21-11-2022 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 05-12-2021 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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| 10-06-2021 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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| 13-06-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |
| 13-05-2014 | Distribution update | Detail |