Brigittea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
| Brigittea | |
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| B. civica | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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6, see text | |
Species edit
As of March 2019[update] 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 edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
- ^ 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.