Brigittea

Brigittea
B. civica
Scientific classification
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]

Description

See also: Glossary of spider terms

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. ^[3]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] it contains six species: ^[1]

• 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

1. "Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
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.
3. 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. p. 8. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6159874 . Retrieved 22 September 2025.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.