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

Drassodex lesserti (Schenkel, 1936)

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Described:

Distribution: France, Switzerland, Germany

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Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland m (ARAN-01342b) - (Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Drassus hispanus Simon, 1878a: 121, pl. 15, f. 7 (mf; misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes hispanus Simon, 1893a: 360, f. 317, 320 (m; misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes heeri Lessert, 1904: 283, pl. 5, f. 5 (misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes hispanus Lessert, 1905a: 189, f. 4-6 (mf; misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes hispanus Lessert, 1910b: 49, f. 38-40 (mf; misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes hispanus Simon, 1914: 134, 208, f. 223-226 (mf; misidentified per Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24)

Drassodes hispanus lesserti Schenkel, 1936a: 315, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Drassodex lesserti Hervé, Roberts & Murphy, 2009: 24, f. 49-57 (m, Df, elevated from subspecies of Drassodex hispanus)

Drassodex lesserti Lecigne, 2018b: 67, f. 6K (f)

Drassodex lesserti Loria, 2025: 83, f. 7a-b (m)

References

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

Lecigne, S. (2018b). Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33(2): 59-99. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1904). Observations sur les araignées du bassin du Leman et de quelques autres localites suisses. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 12(2): 269-450. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.75168 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1905a). Note sur trois especes d'araignées du genre Drassodes. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 13(1): 185-194. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.82521 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- Show included taxa

Loria, P. (2025). Premières mentions de Philodromus pinetorum Muster, 2009, Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981 et Theridion hannoniae Denis, 1945 en Suisse et captures d’espèces notables (Araneae). Entomo Helvetica 18: 75-90. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1936a). Kleine Beiträge zur Spinnenkunde. II. Teil. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 307-333. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. -- 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
2025-06-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Loria, 2025
2020-04-01	Species distribution update	Blick et al., 2016	Old value
2018-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2018b