Drassodes

Drassodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Drassodes Westring, 1851
Species
D. cupreus D. hispanus D. hypocrita D. lapidosus D. saccatus many others
Diversity
172 species

female D. saccatus with male left pedipalp. Mosaicism is quite rare in spiders

Drassodes is a spider genus in the family Gnaphosidae. They can reach a length of about 20mm; the brownish spiders live under rocks or bark in mostly dry habitats.

References

Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

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