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Genus Drassyllus

Drassyllus socius? - Drassyllus - male Drassyllus - male gnaphosid spider - Drassyllus - female Spider - Drassyllus Drassyllus proclesis - male Ground spider - Drassyllus prosaphes - female D. insularis male - Drassyllus insularis - male Drassyllus aprilinus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders)
Genus Drassyllus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Author: Chamberlin, 1922
Numbers
There are 91 species worldwide with 46 species in BugGuide's area. (1)
Identification
Drassyllus (& Camillina) eye arrangement (in Zelotes the PMEs point the opposite direction)

Distal-ventral preening comb on Leg IV
Range
Exact distribution will be added when time permits.

Drassyllus - (If no range is listed, assume that the species is only found in the USA)
- adocetus
- alachua
- antonito
- aprilinus
- arizonensis
- barbus
- broussardi
- cerrus
- conformans
- covensis
- creolus
- depressus - USA & Canada
- dixinus
- dromeus - USA & Canada
- ellipes -southeastern U.S.
- eremitus - USA & Canada
- eremophilus - USA & Canada
- eurus
- fallens - USA & Canada
- fractus
- frigidus
- gynosaphes
- huachuca
- inanus
- insularis - North America
- lamprus - North America
- lepidus - USA, Mexico
- louisianus - USA
- mexicanus - USA, Mexico
- mormon - USA, Mexico
- mumai - USA, Mexico
- nannellus - USA, Canada
- niger - USA, Canada
- notonus - USA, Mexico
- novus - USA, Canada
- ojus - USA, Mexico
- orgilus - USA, Mexico
- orlando - USA
- proclesis
- prosaphes - USA, Mexico
- rufulus - USA, Canada
- salton
- saphes - North America
- seminolus
- sinton - USA, Mexico
- socius - USA, Mexico
- texamans - USA, Mexico
Works Cited
1.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.