Biology:Brigittea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Brigittea
Brigittea civica 2.jpg
Brigittea civica 02.jpg
B. civica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Brigittea
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
B. latens (Fabricius, 1775)
Species

6, see text

Brigittea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Species

(As of March 2019) it contains six species:[1]

  • Brigittea civica (Lucas, 1850) — Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Iran. Introduced to North America
  • Brigittea guanchae (Schmidt, 1968) — Canary Is.
  • Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy, Eastern Mediterranean, Kazakhstan
  • Brigittea latens (Fabricius, 1775) — Europe to Central Asia
  • Brigittea varians (Spassky, 1952) — Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
  • Brigittea vicina (Simon, 1873) — Mediterranean to Central Asia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4135. Retrieved 2019-03-30. 
  2. 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. 

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