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Species Drassodes neglectus

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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 Drassodes
Species neglectus (Drassodes neglectus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Identification
Male voucher

Left palp (ventral/lateral)


Males of this species have three dorsodistal macrosetae on the palpal femur:


Female voucher

Epigyne (ventral)
Range
Alaska east to Nova Scotia and south to Arizona and West Virginia (1)
Life Cycle
Mating pair (in captivity):
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.