The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27089
Drassyllus rufulus (Banks, 1892)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922
Species: Drassyllus rufulus (Banks, 1892)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground runners
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Synonyms and Chresonyms† Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81. †Nomenclature and taxonomic references
from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/GNAPHOSIDAE.html Other Nearctic Members of Genus Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922‡‡
D. adocetus Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA ‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CT
‡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:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Drassyllus rufulus Banks 1892
Prosthesima immaculata Banks 1892
Prosthesima rufula Banks 1892
Melanophora rufula Petrunkevitch 1910
Prosthesima rufula Emerton 1911
Zelotes rufulus Petrunkevitch 1911
Zelotes rufulus Comstock 1912
Drassyllus rufulus Chamberlin 1922
Drassyllus rufulus Comstock 1940
Drassyllus rufulus Kaston 1948
Drassyllus rufulus Platnick & Shadab 1982
Drassyllus rufulus Heiss & Allen 1986
Drassyllus rufulus Platnick & Dondale 1992
Chamberlin, R. V. 1922. The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 35: 145-172.
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
Emerton, J. H. 1911. New spiders from New England. Trans. Connect. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 16: 383-407.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
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.
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.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1910. Some new or little known American Spiders. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 19: 205-224.
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. 1982. A revision of the American spiders of the genus Drassyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 173: 1-97.
D. alachua Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA
D. antonito Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA, Mexico
D. aprilinus (Banks, 1904) ...............USA, Mexico
D. arizonensis (Banks, 1901) ...............USA, Mexico
D. barbus Platnick, 1984 ...............USA
D. broussardi Platnick & Horner, 2007 ...............USA
D. cerrus Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA
D. conformans Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. covensis Exline, 1962 ...............USA
D. creolus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA, Canada
D. depressus (Emerton, 1890) ...............USA, Canada
D. dixinus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
D. dromeus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Canada
D. ellipes Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
D. eremitus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Canada
D. eremophilus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA, Canada
D. eurus Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA
D. fallens Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Canada
D. fractus Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
D. frigidus (Banks, 1892) ...............USA
D. gynosaphes Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
D. huachuca Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA
D. inanus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
D. insularis (Banks, 1900) ...............North America
D. lamprus (Chamberlin, 1920) ...............North America
D. lepidus (Banks, 1899) ...............USA, Mexico
D. louisianus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
D. mexicanus (Banks, 1898) ...............USA, Mexico
D. mormon Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. mumai Gertsch & Riechert, 1976 ...............USA, Mexico
D. nannellus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA, Canada
D. niger (Banks, 1896) ...............USA, Canada
D. notonus Chamberlin, 1928 ...............USA, Mexico
D. novus (Banks, 1895) ...............USA, Canada
D. ojus Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA, Mexico
D. orgilus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Mexico
D. orlando Platnick & Corey, 1989 ...............USA
D. proclesis Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
D. prosaphes Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. pusillus (C. L. Koch, 1833) ...............Palearctic
D. salton Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA
D. saphes Chamberlin, 1936 ...............North America
D. seminolus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
D. sinton Platnick & Shadab, 1982 ...............USA, Mexico
D. socius Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Canada
D. texamans Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. vinealis (Kulczynski, 1897) ...............Palearctic