Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Drassyllus  Chamberlin, 1922   19 species

Drassyllus shaanxiensis  Platnick & Song, 1986

Description
Male

Prosoma oval and dark brown, black lines radiate from a short line-shaped median furrow. Chelicerae with four promarginal and three retromarginal teeth. Sternum oval, yellowish brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark with three pairs of sigilla and five chevrons, and reddish brown anterior scutum. Palp with nonbifid terminal apophysis, triangle median apophysis, large and coiled embolus, large membranous conductor, and a sharp retrolateral tibial apophysis; cymbium with one large spine at the anterior end. Prosoma length: 2.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.9 mm.

Female

Colour and general appearance the same as in males. Abdomen dark with three pairs of sigilla and two indistinct chevrons, no scutum. Epigyne with small midpiece and wider anterior epigynal margin. Prosoma length: 2.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Caucasus) to China, Korea, Japan
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"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, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

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

Ponomarev A V, Alekseev S K, Kozminykh V O, Shmatko V Y (2017a) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Stavropol Province, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 155-173 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

Updates
30-06-2017 Datasheet update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
01-12-2013 Image insert
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail