{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Benoitia tadzhika 54434271.jpg | image_caption = ''B. tadzhika'' | image2 = Benoitia lepida 57030766.jpg | image2_caption = ''B. lepida'' | taxon = Benoitia | authority = Lehtinen, 1967<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''B. bornemiszai'' | type_species_authority = (Caporiacco, 1947) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Benoitia''''' is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.<ref name=Leht1967 />
The genus is named after Belgian arachnologist Pierre L. G. Benoit.
==Species== <gallery mode=packed> File:Benoitia ocellata 238430275.jpg|''B. ocellata'' from South Africa Benoitia ocellata 299184410 538996076.jpg|female ''B. ocellata'' </gallery>
{{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes ten species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Benoitia agraulosa'' <small>(Wang & Wang, 1991)</small> – China * ''Benoitia bornemiszai'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1947)</small> – Rwanda, Tanzania (type species) * ''Benoitia deserticola'' <small>(Simon, 1910)</small> – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa * ''Benoitia lepida'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)</small> – Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran * ''Benoitia ocellata'' <small>(Pocock, 1900)</small> – Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa * ''Benoitia raymondeae'' <small>(Lessert, 1915)</small> – Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa * ''Benoitia rhodesiae'' <small>(Pocock, 1901)</small> – Southern Africa * ''Benoitia tadzhika'' <small>(Andreeva, 1976)</small> – Russia, (Europe) * ''Benoitia timida'' <small>(Audouin, 1826)</small> – Egypt, Israel * ''Benoitia upembana'' <small>(Roewer, 1955)</small> – DR Congo {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/16 | title=Genus Benoitia | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=27 September 2025}}</ref> <ref name=Leht1967>{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| pages=199–468| volume=4}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Agelenidae Category:Agelenidae genera Category:Cosmopolitan spiders Category:Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen
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