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Genus: Drassodex Murphy, 2007 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Drassodex hispanus (L. Koch, 1866)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026907

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Described:

Distribution: Spain

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (780.90.7.1) - (Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Drassus hispanus Koch, 1866: 90, pl. 4, f. 60 (Df) Original description

Drassodes hispanus Roewer, 1955c: 386 (S of Drassodes validior, revalidated by Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 23)

Drassodex hispanus Murphy, 2007: 41, f. 234-235 (f, T from Drassodes)

Drassodex hispanus Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 20, f. 39-40 (f)

Drassodex hispanus Breitling, 2020: 343, f. 12A (f)

References

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

Hervé, C., Roberts, M. J. & Murphy, J. A. (2009). A taxonomic revision of the genus Drassodex Murphy, 2007 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 2171: 1-28. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2171.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Hefte 1-6. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, pp. 1-304. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2020-03-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Breitling, 2020