Haplodrassus umbratilis (L. Koch, 1866)

Kovblyuk, Mykola M., Kastrygina, Zoya A. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2012, A review of the spider genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in Crimea (Ukraine) and adjacent areas (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), ZooKeys 205, pp. 59-89 : 70

Haplodrassus umbratilis (L. Koch, 1866) igs 79-83

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Tullgren 1946: 101, f. 30B, pl. 16, f. 204-208 (♂♀).

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Miller and Buchar 1977: 168, pl. III, f. 2-4 (♂♀).

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Grimm 1985: 156, f. 150, 158-159 (♂♀).

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Roberts 1985: 66, f. 25a (♂♀).

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Roberts 1998: 112, f. (♂♀).

Haplodrassus umbratilis : Almquist 2006: 413, f. 357a-f (♂♀). For a complete list of references see Platnick (2012).

Records from Crimea.

Kovblyuk (2006).

Material.

Ukraine. CRIMEA. Feodosiya Distr.: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (TNU), Karadag Nature Reserve, thalweg Karadag beams, 44°55'11.4"N, 35°12'25.5"E, 43 m, 9.05.-6.06.2008, M.M. Kovblyuk. Simferopol Distr.: 1 ♀ (TNU), 2 km N Pionerskoe Vill., 10.06.1998, M.M. Kovblyuk; 4 ♂♂ (TNU), 1,5 km NE Fersmanovo Vill., Kesslers’ forest, 14.05.-6.06.2000, M.M. Kovblyuk; 64 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀ (TNU), Chatyr-Dag Mt., 23.04.-2.09.2000, M.M. Kovblyuk. Sudak Distr.: 1 ♂ (TNU), 10 km W Sudak Town, Mezhdurechie Vill., 6-8.05.2010, M.K. Yusufova.Yalta Distr.: 68 ♂♂, 27 ♀♀ (TNU), Nikitskaya Yaila Mt. (=Skrinita), ~ 1200 m, 4.05.-10.11.2001, M.M. Kovblyuk.

Additional material.

UKRAINE. Donetsk Area: 5 ♀♀ (TNU), Slavyansky Distr., Svyatogorsk Town, N49°02', E37°39', 8-30.06.2004, N.Yu. Polchaninova. Kherson Area:6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (TNU), Golopristynskiy Distr., Chernomorskiy Reserve, Rybalchie Vill., 04-08.1989, Zelinskaya.

Comparative material.

Haplodrassus soerenseni (Strand, 1900): UKRAINE. Sumy Area: 1 ♀ (TNU), Vakolovshchina Vill., 1.06.1990, V.A. Gnelitsa.

Diagnosis.

Haplodrassus umbratilis can be easily differentiated by from all other Haplodrassus species found in Crimea by its terminal apophysis, which has a broad process (Bp). From the similar Haplodrassus soerenseni males differ in the shape of the terminal apophysis and embolus, and females by having longer lateral epigynal pockets.

Distribution.

West and Central Palaearctic: all Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, mountains of Central Asia and South Siberia ( Mikhailov 1997; Helsdingen 2010; Platnick 2012).

Habitats.

Dry forests, forest edges, meadows and steppes.

Phenology.

♂♀ - V-VII, ♂♂ - IV, ♀♀ - VIII, X, the peak of activity in adults occurs in June. In Central Europe ♂♀ -VI-VIII ( Nentwig et al. 2011). In Britain, the peak is in May ( Harvey et al. 2002), a month earlier than in Crimea.