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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