Sciastes Explained

Sciastes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by S. C. Bishop & C. R. Crosby in 1938.^[1]

Species

it contains seven species, found in Europe and Russia:^[2]

• Sciastes carli (Lessert, 1907) – France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
• Sciastes dubius (Hackman, 1954) – Russia, Canada, USA
• Sciastes extremus Holm, 1967 – Canada, Greenland
• Sciastes hastatus Millidge, 1984 – USA, Canada
• Sciastes mentasta (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947) – Canada, USA (Alaska)
• Sciastes tenna Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Sciastes truncatus (Emerton, 1882) (type) – USA, Canada

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Notes and References

1. Bishop. S. C.. Crosby. C. R.. 1938. Studies in American spiders: Miscellaneous genera of Erigoneae, Part II. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 55–107. 46.
2. Gen. Sciastes Bishop & Crosby, 1938. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.