Schenkeliella Explained

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, it transferred to the Tetragnathidae in 1980.^[4]

See also

• Ermine moth
• List of Tetragnathidae species

Notes and References

1. Gen. Schenkeliella Strand, 1934. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-12-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
2. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1871. On some new genera and species of Araneida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 38. 3. 739. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.
3. Strand. E.. 1934. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, VI. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 271–277. 6. Embrik Strand.
4. Lehtinen. P. T.. Saaristo. M. I.. 1980. Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. II. Nesticidae. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 17. 59. Pekka T. Lehtinen. Michael Saaristo.