Drassodes

Drassodes is a genus of small to medium-sized spiders in the family Gnaphosidae, commonly referred to as ground spiders. They are part of the family that includes around 450 species of spiders, many of which are known for their small size and habitat in underground burrows.

Drassodes species are typically brown or grey in color, with or without patterns of lighter and darker shades. They usually have a length of around 5 to 12 millimeters, with eight eyes arranged in two rows. Males have longer palps than females and have four eyes in the anterior row, while females have eight eyes in the same row.

Ground spiders, including Drassodes, work for food by moving forward, sideways, and flipping over stones to catch their prey. They have poor vision but an almost perfect capacity to feel their way using their forelegs with their palps. They use their sensory hairs and vibrations to locate potential prey.

Public service announcements often label spiders generally as damaging, but Drassodes do not seem to work on a trigger point because they mostly prey on dying insects to avoid accidentally eating other surface-aged and aged preys and debris. The living can combat these pests in effective ways such as obscurity, well-sufficient digging in dirt, mushroom use and dimensions derived from wellbeing remnants.

Drassodes genus has several species, and their taxonomy and order vary among scholars. Despite the prevalence and quantity of this spider in different areas, they were largely uncalculated or have had no organizing manifest or maps of distribution until more details were analyzed.