Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Family |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: Miller et al., 2010: 801 rejected the placement of Coelotes and allied genera by Wunderlich, 1986: 24 as being more closely related to Amaurobius (family Amaurobiidae) than to Agelena; Coelotinae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893: 158 were treated as a separate family Coelotidae by Ono, 2008: 163, but this was not accepted by later authors and Platnick; Cryphoeca and Tuberta were transferred from the Agelenidae to the Hahniidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 225, 272 and to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; Blabomma, Chorizomma, Cicurina and Mastigusa were transferred from the Agelenidae to the Dictynidae by Lehtinen, 1967; Chorizomma, Cicurina and Mastigusa were transferred to the Hahniidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 607; Blabomma was transferred to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 as well as Mastigusa by Castellucci, Scharff & Luchetti, 2023: 6; Chorizomma and Cicurina were transferred to the Cicurinidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 11.

Gen. Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06021
type Coelotes turkestanicus Ovtchinnikov, 1999; gender masculine
N.B.: elevated from subgenus of Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 by Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 216.

In synonymy:

Brignoliolus bucharensis (Charitonov, 1969, T from Agelena) = Brignoliolus charitonovi (Spassky, 1939) (Ovtsharenko & Fet, 1980: 446, sub Coelotes)

Brignoliolus arganoi (Brignoli, 1978) | | Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022720
Coelotes arganoi Brignoli, 1978g: 533, f. 132, 136 (Df) Original description
Coelotes arganoi Wang & Zhu, 2009: 274, f. 1-3 (f)
Brignoliolus Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 217 (T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus caudatus (de Blauwe, 1973) | | Turkey, Lebanon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022736
Coelotes caudatus de Blauwe, 1973a: 31, f. 29 (Df) Original description
Coelotes caudatus Brignoli, 1978i: 207, f. 5 (f)
Coelotes caudatus Wang & Zhu, 2009: 274, f. 4-6 (f)
Brignoliolus caudatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 217 (T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus caudatus Coşar & Danışman, 2026a: 1426, f. 2A-D, 3A-C (f)
Brignoliolus charitonovi (Spassky, 1939) | | Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022739
Coelotes charitonovi Spassky, 1939a: 141, f. 4 (Df) Original description
Agelena bucharensis Charitonov, 1969: 81, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054305]
Coelotes charitonovi Ovtsharenko & Fet, 1980: 446 (S of Agelena bucharensis)
Coelotes bucharensis Ovtchinnikov, 1988: 141 (revalidated)
Coelotes charitonovi Ovtchinnikov, 1999: 74, f. 34-35 (m, S of Coelotes bucharensis confirmed)
Coelotes charitonovi Wang, 2002: 48, f. 113-126 (mf)
Coelotes charitonovi Wang & Zhu, 2009: 274, f. 7-14 (mf)
Brignoliolus charitonovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 217 (T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus charitonovi Zamani et al., 2025b: 2, f. 1A, 2A-C (f)
Brignoliolus coenobita (Brignoli, 1978) | | Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022743
Coelotes coenobita Brignoli, 1978g: 533, f. 135, 137 (Df) Original description
Coelotes coenobita Wang & Zhu, 2009: 276, f. 15-17 (f)
Brignoliolus coenobita Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 218 (T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus juglandicola (Ovtchinnikov, 1984) | | Kyrgyzstan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022790
Coelotes juglandicola Ovtchinnikov, 1984: 126, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description
Coelotes juglandicola Wang & Zhu, 2009: 278, f. 18-25 (mf)
Brignoliolus juglandicola Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 219, f. 9, 12 (f, T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus nenilini (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) | | Uzbekistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022824
Coelotes (Brignoliolus) nenilini Ovtchinnikov, 1999: 77, f. 40-44 (Dmf) Original description
Brignoliolus nenilini Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 219, f. 10-11, 13-14 (f, T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus ovchinnikovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2024 | | Israel urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063165
Brignoliolus ovchinnikovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 219, f. 15-28 (Dmf) Original description
Brignoliolus turkestanicus (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) | | Russia (Urals), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022900 TYPE SPECIES
Coelotes (Brignoliolus) turkestanicus Ovtchinnikov, 1999: 75, f. 36-39 (Dmf) Original description
Coelotes turkestanicus Esyunin, Tuneva & Farzalieva, 2007: 53, f. 14-16, 25 (mf)
Coelotes turkestanicus Wang & Zhu, 2009: 280, f. 26-33 (mf)
Coelotes turkestanicus Fomichev, 2021a: 693, f. 1a-f (f)
Brignoliolus turkestanicus Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 222, f. 29-30 (f, T from Coelotes)
Brignoliolus vignai (Brignoli, 1978) | | Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022908
Coelotes vignai Brignoli, 1978g: 535, f. 133 (Df) Original description
Coelotes vignai Wang & Zhu, 2009: 280, f. 34-36 (f)
Coelotes vignai Dimitrov & Jäger, 2021: 3, f. 1A-C, 2A-C, 3A-E, 4A-E (Dmf)
Brignoliolus vignai Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 223 (T from Coelotes)

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