Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Description
Male
Resembles Dictyna arundinacea, but smaller.
Colour: legs brown, tibiae and metatarsi distally darkened; opisthosomal pattern consisting of a median dark band barely widened in the middle, ventral part formed by a wide brown band reaching the spinnerets and bounded by a lighter area.
Pedipalp: bulb almost round; conductor twisted, wide at its base, apically, the outer margin with numerous small indentations, retrolaterally, this part appearing thin and almost straight; tibial apophyses (ctenidia) short, aligned at their bases, the first retrolateral one straight and with broad base, the second prolateral one a little longer and slightly tilted forward.
Body length male: 2.9 mmFemale
Colour: legs brown, first half of femora lighter, tibiae darkened distally, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish, darkened distally; opisthosomal pattern similar to that of male but the median dark band is visibly widened in the middle on both sides forming 2 lobes.
Epigyne/vulva: consisting of two genital openings rounded posteriorly, widening anteriorly with oblique anterior margin or ovoid. Spermathecae partly visible through the genital openings, at their posterior edge. Spermathecae elongated and turning outwards at an angle of 45°. Copulatory ducts consisting of a semi-circular coil, widening towards their openings.
Body length female: 2.3-3.0 mmAdditional information
Mostly on dry and low-growing plants.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Lehtinen 1967)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Conductor, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Conductor, ventro-prolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Palpal tibia and conductor, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Epigyne
(Lehtinen 1967)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2021a)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2021a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 
Bristowe W S (1935) The spiders of Greece and the adjacent islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 104: 733-788
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Helsdingen P J van (2013) A quick scan of the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 33: 29-38
Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34
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
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
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