Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Krammer, Hans-Joachim, Thormann, Jana, Hein, Nils, Karalashvili, Elisabeth, Kachlishvili, Nino & Datunashvili, Anastasia, 2024, 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, pp. 89-118 : 89

** Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Fig. 9

Brigittea innocens Lecigne, 2021: 13, figs 4a-i, 5a-h, 6a-e (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Kakheti • 2♀♀; Dedoplistskaro mun., Chachuna Managed Reserve ; N41.225185°, E46.323604°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert, vegetation; leg. Seropian A.; 18 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-IDs 1035877, 1035878 .

Barcoding.

Two barcodes were obtained from the specimens CaBOL-IDs 1035877 and 1035878 (BOLD:AFO9424, mean p -distance 1.37%). According to the BOLD Systems library, there are 2 barcodes of the species currently with a private status that failed to indicate a good match with our specimens. Either the specimens in the BOLD Systems belong to other species, or the COI gene is not a proper tool to differentiate this particular species.

Remarks.

This species is distributed from the eastern Mediterranean to eastern Kazakhstan ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). It is the first record of B. innoscens in the Caucasus. The nearest known record originates from Cyprus ( Bosmans et al. 2019), while in the neighboring countries, this species is recorded in Antalya (Turkey) ( Lecigne 2021; see also for female diagnosis).

Figures

Figures 6 - 10. Clubiona frisia, female (6: endogyne, dorsal view). Clubiona reclusa, male (7: left palpus, ventral view; 8: same, retrolateral view). Brigittea innocens, female (9: endogyne, dorsal view). Lathys lehtineni, female (10: endogyne, dorsal view). Scale bars: 0.2 mm (6 - 9); 0.1 mm (10).