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Species Drassyllus novus

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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
Species novus (Drassyllus novus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Author: Banks. Year of publication: 1895.
Identification
Palp

Epigynum (undissected/ventral dissected/dorsal dissected)
Range
"Wisconsin to southernmost Ontario and New York, south to Arkansas and northern Georgia."(1)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the American spiders of the genus Drassyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).
Platnick and Shadab. 1982. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 173.