Drassodella Explained

Drassodella is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Gallieniellidae, and was first described by John Hewitt in 1916.^[1] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Gallieniellidae in 1990.^[2]

Species

it contains nineteen species, all found in South Africa:^[3]

• Drassodella amatola Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella aurostriata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella baviaans Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella flava Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella guttata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella lotzi Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella maculata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella melana Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Drassodella montana Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Drassodella quinquelabecula Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Drassodella salisburyi Hewitt, 1916 (type) – South Africa
• Drassodella septemmaculata (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
• Drassodella tenebrosa Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
• Drassodella tolkieni Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella transversa Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella trilineata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
• Drassodella vasivulva Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Drassodella venda Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa

Notes and References

1. Hewitt. J.. 1916. Descriptions of new South African spiders. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5. 3. 209–211.
2. Platnick. N. I.. 1990. Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). American Museum Novitates. 2978. 39.
3. Gen. Drassodella Hewitt, 1916. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.