{{Short description|Species of spider}} {{Speciesbox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = Haplodrassus splendens 299773329 540087678.jpg | image2_caption = female | taxon = Haplodrassus splendens | authority = (Tucker, 1923) | synonyms = {{Species list |Drassodes splendens|Tucker, 1923 }} }}
'''''Haplodrassus splendens''''' is a species of spider in the family Gnaphosidae.<ref name="wsc" /> It occurs in southern Africa.<ref name="dippenaar2021" />
==Distribution== ''Haplodrassus splendens'' is found in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and South Africa. Within South Africa, it is recorded from all nine provinces.<ref name="dippenaar2021" />
==Habitat and ecology== The species is a free-living ground dweller that inhabits the Fynbos, Grassland, Nama Karoo, Savanna, and Succulent Karoo biomes at altitudes ranging from 33 to 1,850 m above sea level.<ref name="dippenaar2021" />
==Description== {{see also|Glossary of spider terms}} female|thumb|center
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==Conservation== ''Haplodrassus splendens'' is listed as Least Concern by the South African National Biodiversity Institute due to its wide geographic range. The species is protected in more than ten protected areas.<ref name="dippenaar2021" />
==Taxonomy== The species was originally described by R.W.E. Tucker in 1923 as ''Drassodes splendens'' from Zimbabwe. In 2025, Yuri M. Marusik and Charles R. Haddad transferred the species to the genus ''Haplodrassus''.<ref name="marusik2025" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/10984 | title=Haplodrassus splendens (Tucker, 1923) | publisher=World Spider Catalog | accessdate=22 September 2025}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2021">{{cite book | last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman | first1=A.S. | last2=Haddad | first2=C.R. | last3=Foord | first3=S.H. | last4=Lotz | first4=L.N. | year=2021 | title=The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. part 1 (A-D). Version 1 | publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide | pages=71-72 | doi=10.5281/zenodo.7197174 | url=https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7197174 | accessdate=22 September 2025}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name="marusik2025">{{cite journal | last1=Marusik | first1=Y.M. | last2=Haddad | first2=C.R. | year=2025 | title=On the placement and affiliations of the Drassodes species described from sub-Saharan Africa (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) | journal=Arthropoda Selecta | volume=34 | issue=1 | pages=77-85 | doi=10.15298/arthsel.34.1.07| doi-access=free }}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders described in 1923 Category:Taxa named by R. W. E. Tucker