Brignoliolus is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae.
It is named after Italian arachnologist Paolo Brignoli, who described Coelotes arganoi, now a member of this genus.
Distribution Brignoliolus is distributed across the Middle East, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia. The genus occurs in Turkey, the Levant (Lebanon, Israel), Iran, and the Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan), with one species extending into the Ural Mountains of Russia.
Species , this genus includes nine species:
Brignoliolus arganoi (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey Brignoliolus caudatus (de Blauwe, 1973) – Lebanon Brignoliolus charitonovi (Spassky, 1939) – Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan Brignoliolus coenobita (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey Brignoliolus juglandicola (Ovtchinnikov, 1984) – Kyrgyzstan Brignoliolus nenilini (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) – Uzbekistan Brignoliolus ovchinnikovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2024 – Israel Brignoliolus turkestanicus (Ovtchinnikov, 1999) – Russia (Urals), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan (type species) Brignoliolus vignai (Brignoli, 1978) – Turkey
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