Identification
Most members of this family can be identified as such by the presence of prominent, tube-shaped spinnerets.
However, note that there are other families with spinnerets that can look similar, such as the Clubionidae:
For Gnaphosidae vs. Clubionidae, look for an eye arrangement that is much more tightly clustered. Example gnaphosid eye arrangement:
Range
Exact distribution within these countries will be added when time permits.
Callilepis - 7 species in BugGuide's range.
-C. chisos: eastern Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and western Texas.
-C. eremella: western United States and southern British Columbia.
-C. gertschi: southwestern United States (e.g. AZ, NM, TX).
-C. gosoga: California and northern Baja California.
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C. imbecilla: Illinois and southernmost Ontario, south to Texas and Florida (no records for the northeastern states).
-C. mumai: southwestern United States from Utah south to Mexico (e.g. UT, AZ, NM).
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C. pluto: western Northwest Territories to Maine, south to Oregon, Colorado and Alabama (Canadian portion includes NT, BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, & NS).
Camillina - 1 species in BugGuide's range
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C. bilineata - USA & Canada
- C. bixleri - USA
- C. irvingi - USA
- C. sincera - USA
- C. ubicki - USA
Drassodes - 7 species in BugGuide's range
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D. neglectus: Alaska to Nova Scotia, south to Arizona and West Virginia.
-D. mirus: Alberta and high mountains of Colorado.
-D. gosiutus: Alberta to Connecticut, south to Arizona and Mississippi.
-D. saccatus: British Columbia to Massachusetts, south to Baja California (Mexico), Oaxaca (-Mexico), and Missouri.
-D. auriculoides: Wisconsin to Massachusetts, south to Arkansas and Tennessee.
-D. serratichelis: Louisiana east to Florida.
-D. angulus: California.
Drassyllus - 47 species in BugGuide's range.
Eilica
- bicolor - USA & south
Gertschosa
- E. amphiloga - USA, Mexico
Gnaphosa - 20 species in Bugguide's range.
Haplodrassus - 9 species in BugGuide's range.
Litopyllus - 2 species in BugGuide's range
- L. cubanus - USA, Bahama Is., Cuba
Micaria - 41 species in BugGuide's range
Neozimiris - 1 species
-N. pubescens - southern CA to western AZ
Nodocion - 6 species in BugGuide's range
- N. eclecticus - North America
- N. floridanus - USA, Mexico
- N. mateonus - USA
- N. rufithoracicus - USA, Canada
- N. utus - USA, Mexico
- N. voluntarius - North America
Orodrassus - 3 species in BugGuide's range
- O. assimilis - USA
- O. canadensis - USA, Canada
- O. coloradensis - USA, Canada
Parasyrisca - 1 species in BugGuide's range
- O. orites - USA, Canada
-P. rufus - southern CA, TX, AL
-P. singulus - HI
Scopoides - 7 species in BugGuide's range
- S. bryantae - USA, Mexico
- S. cambridgei - USA, Mexico
- S. catharius - USA
- S. gertschi - USA
- S. kastoni - USA, Mexico
- S. naturalisticus - USA, Mexico
- S. nesiotes - USA, Mexico
Scotophaeus - 1 species in BugGuide's range
- S. blackwalli - Cosmopolitan
Sergiolus - 16 species in BugGuide's range
- S. angustus - USA, Canada, Mexico
- S. bicolor - USA, Canada
- S. capulatus - USA, Canada
- S. columbianus - USA, Canada
- S. cyaneiventris - USA, Cuba
- S. decoratus - USA, Canada
- S. gertschi - USA, Mexico
- S. iviei - USA, Canada
- S. kastoni - USA, Cuba
- S. lowelli - USA, Mexico
- S. minutus - USA, Cuba, Jamaica
- S. montanus - USA, Canada, Mexico
- S. ocellatus - USA, Canada
- S. stella - USA, Mexico
- S. tennesseensis - USA
- S. unimaculatus - USA, Canada
Sosticus - 3 species in BugGuide's range
- S. californicus - USA
- S. insularis - USA, Canada
- S. loricatus - Holarctic
Synaphosus - 2 species in BugGuide's range
- S. paludis - USA
- S. syntheticus - USA, Mexico
Talanites - 5 species in BugGuide's range
- T. captiosus - USA, Mexico
- T. echinus - USA
- T. exlineae - USA
- T. moodyae - USA
- T. ubicki - USA
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