Drassodes cupreus
(Blackwall, 1834) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Drassodes cupreus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 628 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI25 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics16 specimens↗
World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University13 traits · 23 refs↗
World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Drassodes cupreus is a species of spider in the genus Drassodes, family Gnaphosidae. A ground-living nocturnal hunter, it spends the day in a silken retreat.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compiled from 23 sources
Morphometry1
Predation4
Ecology8
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Drassodes cupreus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Drassodes cupreus. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type4 629 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions13 of 28 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Brussels, BE | 432 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 220 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 89 |
| Akademia Pomorska w Słupskulocation not on record | 49 |
| Bern, CH | 48 |
| Tilburg, NL | 38 |
| Helsinki, FI | 31 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 28 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 21 |
| Bonn, DE | 12 |
| Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record | 9 |
| SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record | 8 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 8 |
| Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record | 7 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 5 |
| Tartu, EE | 3 |
| Liverpool, GB | 3 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 2 |
| Geneva, CH | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Buenos Aires, AR | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 1 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 1 |
| Ekaterinburg, RU | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Drassodes cupreus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.