Benoitia

Benoitia
B. tadzhika
B. lepida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
B. bornemiszai (Caporiacco, 1947)
Species
See text.

Benoitia is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[2]

The genus is named after Belgian arachnologist Pierre L. G. Benoit.

Species

• 
  B. ocellata from South Africa
• 
  female B. ocellata

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes ten species:^[1]

• Benoitia agraulosa (Wang & Wang, 1991) – China
• Benoitia bornemiszai (Caporiacco, 1947) – Rwanda, Tanzania (type species)
• Benoitia deserticola (Simon, 1910) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Benoitia lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
• Benoitia ocellata (Pocock, 1900) – Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Benoitia raymondeae (Lessert, 1915) – Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
• Benoitia rhodesiae (Pocock, 1901) – Southern Africa
• Benoitia tadzhika (Andreeva, 1976) – Russia, (Europe)
• Benoitia timida (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel
• Benoitia upembana (Roewer, 1955) – DR Congo

References

1. "Genus Benoitia". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
2. 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.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Benoitia at iNaturalist