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Genus: Cryptodrassus Miller, 1943 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh, 1935)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026838

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Described:

Distribution: France to Greece and Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaĳan

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: National Museum – Natural History Museum, Praha (NMP), Czech Republic 1f (P6A-673/1) of Cryptodrassus pulchellus - (Růžička et al., 2005)

Taxonomic References

Zelotes hungaricus Balogh, 1935: 18 (Dmf) Original description

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Miller, 1943: 12, pl. I, f. 2-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054866]

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Miller, 1947: 55, pl. II, f. 4a-c (f)

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Miller, 1949: 96, f. 13-23 (Dm)

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Miller, 1971: 81, pl. VI, f. 13-14 (m)

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994: 3, f. 7-11 (mf)

Cryptodrassus pulchellus Weiss & Moldován, 1998: 522, f. 1-4 (m)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Weiss, Szinetár & Samu, 1998: 57, f. 1-4 (mf, T from Zelotes, S of Cryptodrassus pulchellus)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Ledoux & Rollard, 2004: 16, f. 1A-F (mf)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Trotta, 2005: 164, f. 270-273 (mf)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Murphy, 2007: 65, f. 528-529 (mf)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2010: 190, f. 1-19 (mf)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Wunderlich, 2011: 35, f. 77-80 (mf)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Naumova, Blagoev & Deltshev, 2021: 233, f. 3A-C (m)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Ponomarev et al., 2021: 358, f. 16 (f)

Cryptodrassus hungaricus Zamani et al., 2025c: 133, f. 2F (f)

References

Balogh, J. I. (1935). A Sashegy pokfaunaja. Budapest, 60 pp. -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2010). Cryptodrassus hungaricus and Leptodrassex memorialis from Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 19(3): 189-197. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.19.3.06 -- Show included taxa

Ledoux, J.-C. & Rollard, C. (2004). De araneis Galliae I.1, Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh). Revue Arachnologique 15: 16. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1943). Neue Spinnen aus der Serpentinsteppe bei Mohelno in Mähren. Entomologické Listy, Brno 6: 11-29. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1947). Pavoučí zvířena hadcových stepí u Mohelna. Archiv Svazu na Výzkum a Ochranu Přírody i Krajiny v Zemi Moravskoslezské 7: 1-107. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1949). The new spiders from the serpentine rocky heath mear Mohelno (Moravia occ.). Entomologické Listy, Brno 12: 88-98. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. -- Show included taxa

Naumova, M., Blagoev, G. & Deltshev, C. (2021). Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984(1): 228-257. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.18 -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I., Levy, G. & Platnick, N. I. (1994). A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3095: 1-27. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Alekseev, S. K., Komarov, Y. E. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2021). Spiders (Aranei) of the Terek River valley in Mozdok District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17(2): 351-374. doi: 10.23885/181433262021172-351374 -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- Show included taxa

Weiss, I. & Moldován, I. (1998). Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus der Siebenbürgischen Heide (Arachnida: Araneae). Mauritiana (Altenburg) 16: 521-525. -- Show included taxa

Weiss, I., Szinetár, C. & Samu, F. (1998). Zur Taxonomie von Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh, 1935) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 16: 56-59. doi: 10.5431/aramit1610 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025c). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20(1): 132-137. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025c
2025-03-13	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2025c	Old value
2021-12-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Ponomarev et al., 2021
2021-12-09	Species distribution update	Ponomarev et al., 2021	Old value
2021-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Naumova, Blagoev & Deltshev, 2021