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Genus: Drassodes Westring, 1851 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Drassodes malagassicus (Butler, 1880)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026944

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Taxonomic References

Drassus malagassicus Butler, 1880: 730, pl. 58, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Drassodes malagassicus Marusik & Haddad, 2025: 77, 83 (species inquirenda)

References

Butler, A. G. (1880). On Arachnida from the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47(4, 1879): 729-734, pl. 58. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02709.x [[published in April 1880, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Haddad, C. R. (2025). On the placement and affiliations of the Drassodes species described from sub-Saharan Africa (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34(1): 77-85. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.1.07 -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Marusik & Haddad, 2025
2016-11-03	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected