Staveleya Explained

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.

Species

it contains four species:

• 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

• Mecopisthes
• Cnephalocotes
• Microneta
• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Further reading

• Canard. A.. Cruveillier. M.. 2016. Revue Arachnologique. Rectifications nomenclaturales à apporter au catalogue mondial des araignées (1ère note). Nomenclatural corrections to be made to the world catalog of spiders (1st note). French. 3. 42–45.
• Gnelitsa. V. A.. 2009. Arthropoda Selecta. A survey of Crimean Linyphiidae (Aranei). 1. On seven rare and little known linyphiids from Crimea. 17. 191–202.
• Frick. H.. 2008. Arachnologische Mitteilungen. First record of Hypsocephalus dahli in Switzerland with a review of its distribution, ecology and taxonomy (Araneae, Linyphiidae). 35. 35–44. 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. German. 44. for 1993. 7–36.