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Genus: Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Brigittea colona (Simon, 1906)

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Described:

Distribution: New Caledonia

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Dictyna colona Simon, 1906b: 303 (Df) Original description

Dictyna colona Lehtinen, 1967: 453, f. 339 (f, possibly Brigittea)

Brigittea colona Montana et al., 2025: 81 (T from Dictyna)

References

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. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906b). Etude sur les araignées de la section des cribellates. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50: 284-308. -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07	Species transferred to new genus	Montana et al., 2025		Species transferred from Dictyna to Brigittea