Biology:Brigittea
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Brigittea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[1]
Description
The carapace is dark brown with rows of white setae covering it dorsally, while the opisthosoma is oval bearing dense white setae with a dark central area forming a pattern stretching from the anterior border to the spinnerets. Males are slightly smaller than females and have bow-shaped chelicerae.[2]
Species
As of September 2025[update] it contains six species:[3]
- Brigittea avicenna Zamani & Marusik, 2021 — Iran
- Brigittea civica (Lucas, 1850) — Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Iran. Introduced to North America
- Brigittea colona (Simon, 1906) — New Caledonia
- Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy, Eastern Mediterranean, Kazakhstan
- Brigittea latens (Fabricius, 1775) — Europe to Central Asia
- Brigittea vicina (Simon, 1873) — Mediterranean to Central Asia
References
- ↑ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.". Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199–468.
- ↑ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2020). The Dictynidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. pp. 8. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6159874. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6159874. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
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- ↑ "Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4135. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
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