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Tetrablemmidae Brignoliella

Brignoliella michaeli Lehtinen, 1981

Michael’s Armoured Spider

This is a brownish spider showing the generic characters already noted under B. besutensis. such as having six eyes, tiny teeth on the margin of the carapace, and in the case of the male, a horn projecting from the clypeus.

Males of B. michaeli are distinguished from B. besutensis and most other Brignoliella species by their particularly long horn with a forked tip. Females have exceptionally large circular pits on the sternum. Other distinguishing features include microscopic details of the ventral plates and in the male palps.

Length♀ 1–2 mm; ♂ 1–2 mm
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Johor, Penang).
HabitatRainforest leaf litter.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Brignoliella michaeli (Original description ♂♀)

    Lehtinen, 1981 Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region: 41, f. 103-106, 108, 111

  2. Brignoliella michaeli (♂♀)

    Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2017 Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Pacullidae and Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Singapore: 36, f. 13A-H, 14A-B, 15A-D doi:10.3897/zookeys.661.10677

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Brignoliella michaeli Lehtinen, 1981

Singapore, Malaysia (Johor, Penang).

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