Brigittea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.
Description
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.
Species
it contains six species:
- Brigittea avicenna <small>Zamani & Marusik, 2021</small> â Iran
- Brigittea civica <small>(Lucas, 1850)</small> â Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Iran. Introduced to North America
- Brigittea colona <small>(Simon, 1906)</small> â New Caledonia
- Brigittea innocens <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> â Italy, Eastern Mediterranean, Kazakhstan
- Brigittea latens <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> â Europe to Central Asia
- Brigittea vicina <small>(Simon, 1873)</small> â Mediterranean to Central Asia
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