Brignoliolus is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae.
| 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 | |
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9, see text | |
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| blue: reported countries (WSC) | |
It is named after Italian arachnologist Paolo Brignoli, who described Coelotes arganoi, now a member of this genus.
Distribution
editBrignoliolus 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
editAs 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
edit- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 "Gen. Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
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