Schenkeliella is a monotypic genus of Sri Lankan long-jawed orb-weavers containing the single species, Schenkeliella spinosa.[1] The species was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871 under the name Oeta spinosa,[2] but it was renamed to "Schenkeliella" by Embrik Strand in 1934 because the name was already in use for a genus of ermine moths.[3] Originally placed with the Nesticidae,[3] it transferred to the Tetragnathidae in 1980.[4]
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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: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Schenkeliella Strand, 1934[1] |
| Species: | S. spinosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Schenkeliella spinosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)
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See also
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edit- ^ a b "Gen. Schenkeliella Strand, 1934". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 38 (3): 739.
- ^ a b Strand, E. (1934). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, VI". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 6: 271–277.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T.; Saaristo, M. I. (1980). "Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. II. Nesticidae". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 17: 59.