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Staveleya

Staveleya is a genus of European sheet weavers. Its current name is a replacement for Hypsocephalus, already a genus in the snapper family of fish. The type species was originally described under the name "Microneta pusilla", but the type species is designated one of the junior synonyms, "Cnephalocotes dahli" because it has a physical specimen. The genus is named in honour of Eliza Fanny Staveley, the first woman to publish research on arachnology in the United Kingdom.

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Staveleya
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Staveleya
Sherwood, 20211
Type species
Cnephalocotes dahli
(Menge, 1869)
Species

4, see text

Synonyms1

Staveleya is a genus of European sheet weavers. Its current name is a replacement for Hypsocephalus, already a genus in the snapper family of fish.2 The type species was originally described under the name "Microneta pusilla",3 but the type species is designated one of the junior synonyms, "Cnephalocotes dahli" because it has a physical specimen.45 The genus is named in honour of Eliza Fanny Staveley, the first woman to publish research on arachnology in the United Kingdom.6

Species

As of December 2021 it contains four species:1

  • S. huberti (Millidge, 1975) – France (Corsica)
  • S. nesiotes (Simon, 1915) – France (Corsica)
  • S. paulae (Simon, 1918) – France, Switzerland, Italy
  • S. pusilla (Menge, 1869) (type) – Central Europe and Italy to Greece and Ukraine
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Gen. Staveleya Sherwood, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
  2. Sherwood, D. (2021). "A replacement name for Hypsocephalus Millidge, 1978 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Serket. 18 (1): 64–66.
  3. Menge, A. (1869). "Preussische Spinnen" [Prussian Spiders]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3 (2): 219–264.
  4. Frick, H.; Staręga, W. (2009). "Hypsocephalus dahli is a junior synonym of Microneta pusilla (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 37: 12–14. doi:10.5431/aramit3703.
  5. Lessert, R. de (1909). "Note sur deux araignées nouvelles de la famille des Argiopidae" [Note on two new spiders of the Argiopidae family]. Revue suisse de Zoologie (in French). 17: 79–83. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.3773.
  6. Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.
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