Brignoliella Shear, 1978

Fardiansah, Riko, Duperre, Nadine, Widyastuti, Rahayu, Potapov, Anton, Stefan Scheu, & Harms, Danilo, 2019, Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia, ZooKeys 820, pp. 95-118 : 95

Genus Brignoliella Shear, 1978

Type species.

Brignoliella acuminata (Simon, 1889)

Diagnosis.

The genus Brignoliella most resembles the genera Pahanga Shear, 1979 and Borneomma Deeleman-Reinhold, 1980 but can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: sternum with regular round punctuations (Fig. 35); male carapace with clypeal horn (Figs 34, 37); embolus sinuous, without terminal acute angle (Figs 38, 39); female with paired anterolateral groove on preanal scutum (Fig. 45).

Composition.

Twenty-three species were known before the current publication of which eight are known from one sex only (World Spider Catalog, 2018).

Distribution.

Borneo (3 species), Caroline Islands (2), China (2), Fiji (1), India (1), Indonesia Sulawesi (3), Malaysia (2), Nepal (1), New Caledonia (1), New Guinea (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Philippines (2), Singapore (2) and Sri Lanka (2).