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.[4][5] The genus is named in honour of Eliza Fanny Staveley, the first woman to publish research on arachnology in the United Kingdom.[6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Staveleya Sherwood, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cnephalocotes dahli (Menge, 1869)
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Species
editAs of December 2021[update] 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Staveleya Sherwood, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ a b Sherwood, D. (2021). "A replacement name for Hypsocephalus Millidge, 1978 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Serket. 18 (1): 64–66.
- ^ Menge, A. (1869). "Preussische Spinnen" [Prussian Spiders]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3 (2): 219–264.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
edit- Canard, A.; Cruveillier, M. (2016). "Rectifications nomenclaturales à apporter au catalogue mondial des araignées (1ère note)" [Nomenclatural corrections to be made to the world catalog of spiders (1st note)]. Revue Arachnologique (in French). 3: 42–45.
- Gnelitsa, V. A. (2009). "A survey of Crimean Linyphiidae (Aranei). 1. On seven rare and little known linyphiids from Crimea". Arthropoda Selecta. 17: 191–202.
- Frick, H. (2008). "First record of Hypsocephalus dahli in Switzerland with a review of its distribution, ecology and taxonomy (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 35: 35–44. doi:10.5431/aramit3505.
- Hansen, H. (1995). "Über die Arachniden-Fauna von urbanen Lebensräumen in Venedig - III. Die epigäischen Spinnen eines Stadtparkes (Arachnida: Araneae)" [About the arachnid fauna of urban habitats in Venice - III. The epigeic spiders of a city park (Arachnida: Araneae)]. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia (in German). 44 (for 1993): 7–36.