[1] A ground-living nocturnal hunter, it spends the day in a silken retreat.

The carapace (the upper surface of the prosoma) is brownish with a darker border.

[2] Drassodes cupreus was first described by John Blackwall in 1834,[1] on the basis of specimens found near Manchester and Llanrwst in Great Britain.

[1] It occurs at ground level, under stones, in leaf-litter and around the bases of grass tussocks, often in particularly dry sites.

[2] In the south of Great Britain, it is found in heathland.