Brigittea

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

Brigittea
B. civica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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. "Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 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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