Drassodella is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Gallieniellidae, and was first described by John Hewitt in 1916.[2] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Gallieniellidae in 1990.[3]

Drassodella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gallieniellidae
Genus: Drassodella
Hewitt, 1916[1]
Type species
D. salisburyi
Hewitt, 1916
Species

19, see text

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains nineteen species, all found in South Africa:[1]

References

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