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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Drassyllus » Drassyllus niger
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Adult Female - Drassyllus niger - female
Copyright © 2009 John Sloan

Adult Female - Drassyllus niger - Female
Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada
June 27, 2009
Size: BL = 6.5mm
Adult female. Found her crawling out in the open, in the midafternoon, on patchy bare and mostly grassy ground (natural gas pipeline clearance).

See male here:


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Adult Female - Drassyllus niger - female Drassyllus sp. (Gnaphosidae) - Drassyllus niger - female
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Contributed by John Sloan on 29 June, 2009 - 9:15pm
Last updated 28 November, 2009 - 5:13pm

Moved
Moved from Drassyllus.
… John Sloan, 28 November, 2009 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

 
Further details here, in case
Further details here, in case anyone is interested:
http://forum.canadianarachnology.org/viewtopic.php?t=761
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 28 November, 2009 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Spiders.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 June, 2009 - 11:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Species?
John

Did you ever get a look at the epigyne?

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 4 November, 2009 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

 
Future project
I had trouble with it at the time, as I recall, and plan to take a second look one of these days. Either it wasn't clear what the species was, or it didn't match any of the epigyne drawings I have. I wish I'd found a male to go with it. That might have made for an easier ID.
… John Sloan, 4 November, 2009 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

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