Brignoliolus

Brignoliolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999 [1]
Type species
Coelotes turkestanicus Ovtchinnikov, 1999
Species
9, see text
blue: reported countries (WSC)

Brignoliolus is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae.

It is named after Italian arachnologist Paolo Brignoli, who described Coelotes arganoi, now a member of this genus.

Distribution

Brignoliolus is distributed across the Middle East, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia. The genus occurs in Turkey, the Levant (Lebanon, Israel), Iran, and the Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan), with one species extending into the Ural Mountains of Russia. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes nine species: ^[2]

• Brignoliolus arganoi (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey
• Brignoliolus caudatus (de Blauwe, 1973) – Lebanon
• Brignoliolus charitonovi (Spassky, 1939) – Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
• Brignoliolus coenobita (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey
• Brignoliolus juglandicola (Ovtchinnikov, 1984) – Kyrgyzstan
• Brignoliolus nenilini (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) – Uzbekistan
• Brignoliolus ovchinnikovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2024 – Israel
• Brignoliolus turkestanicus (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) – Russia (Urals), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan (type species)
• Brignoliolus vignai (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey

References

1. Ovtchinnikov, S. V. (1999). "On the supraspecific systematics of the subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) in the former USSR fauna". Tethys Entomological Research. 1: 63–80.
2. "Gen. Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-20.