Nearctic States & Provinces: AB ON YT CO MT NH ND SD WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/26956
Drassodes neglectus (Keyserling, 1887)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Drassodes Westring, 1851
Species: Drassodes neglectus (Keyserling, 1887)
Author of this page: Shorthouse, David P. (Page is in progress)
General Comments: The range of this species is Alaska to Nova Scotia and south to Arizona, New Mexico, and West Virginia. It has also been collected in the former Soviet Union. Mature males and females have been collected March to October and also at elevations up to 4360 m. Males and females are often found together in the same silken retreat. Egg sacs can be found June to September and are guarded by the mother (Platnick & Dondale, 1992).
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB ON YT CO MT NH ND SD WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground runners
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
under stones and loose bark, pebbly beaches, fields, talus, association with lodgepole, ponderosa, and jack pine, spruce, fir, juniper, scrub oak, birch, sagebrush, sphagnum (Platnick & Dondale, 1992)
Life & Natural History:
Mature specimens of both genders have been collected from March to October. Males and females are often found sharing the same silken retreat (Kaston, 1948). Egg sacs (collected June - September) are carefully guarded by the female.
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 6.54 mm
A = 2.82 mm
C = 2.02 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 9.51 mm
A = 3.42 mm
C = 2.43 mm
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Descriptions Source:
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Drassodes neglectus Keyserling 1887 |
| Drassus neglectus Keyserling 1887 |
| Drassus humilis Banks 1892 |
| Drassus inornatus Banks 1895 |
| Drassodes humilis Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Drassodes neglectus Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Drassus neglectus Comstock 1912 |
| Drassodes neglectus Comstock 1940 |
| Drassodes neglectus Kaston 1948 |
| Drassodes neglectus Ubick & Roth 1973 |
| Drassodes neglectus Platnick & Shadab 1976 |
| Drassodes neglectus Heiss & Allen 1986 |
| Drassodes neglectus Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1988 |
| Drassodes neglectus Platnick & Dondale 1992 |
| Drassodes neglectus Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1996 |
| Drassodes neglectus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1895. The Arachnida of Colorado. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 8: 415-434.
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Heiss, J. S. & R. T. Allen. 1986. The Gnaphosidae of Arkansas. Bull. Ark. agric. Exp. Stn 885: 1-67.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1887. Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 421-490.
Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1996. Additional data on the spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of Asia. In ntomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 114-130 (
Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1988. Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province). Ent. Obozr. 67: 204-217.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1976. A revision of the spider genera Drassodes and Tivodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America. Am. Mus. Novit. 2593: 1-29.
Ubick, D. & V. D. Roth. 1973. Nearctic Gnaphosidae including species from adjacent Mexican states. Am. Arachnol. 9(suppl. 2): 1-12.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/GNAPHOSIDAE.html
Natural History References
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Drassodes Westring, 1851‡‡
D. angulus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 ...............USA
D. auriculoides Barrows, 1919 ...............USA
D. cupreus (Blackwall, 1834) ...............Palearctic
D. fugax (Simon, 1878) ...............Palearctic
D. gosiutus Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA, Canada
D. lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
D. mirus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 ...............Holarctic
D. pubescens (Thorell, 1856) ...............Palearctic
D. saccatus (Emerton, 1889) ...............North America
D. serratichelis (Roewer, 1928) ...............Crete, Isreal, USA
D. villosus (Thorell, 1856) ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Shorthouse, David P. in prep. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: GNAPHOSIDAE, Drassodes neglectus (Keyserling, 1887).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/26956 (Accessed: 10/13/2008 5:25:22 AM).
Author Email Address: dshorthouse@eol.org
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