Stanwellia Explained

Stanwellia is a genus of South Pacific mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by W. J. Rainbow & R. H. Pulleine in 1918.^[1] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[2] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.^[3] It is a senior synonym of Aparua.

Species

the genus contained eighteen species, found in New Zealand (NZ) and the Australian states of New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), South Australia (SA) and Tasmania (TAS):^[4]

• Stanwellia annulipes (C. L. Koch, 1841) – TAS
• Stanwellia bipectinata (Todd, 1945) – NZ
• Stanwellia grisea (Hogg, 1901) – VIC
• Stanwellia hapua (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia hoggi (Rainbow, 1914) (type) – NSW
• Stanwellia hollowayi (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia houhora (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia inornata Main, 1972 – VIC
• Stanwellia kaituna (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia media (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia minor (Kulczyński, 1908) – NSW
• Stanwellia nebulosa (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – SA
• Stanwellia occidentalis Main, 1972 – SA
• Stanwellia pexa (Hickman, 1930) – TAS
• Stanwellia puna (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia regia (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia taranga (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia tuna (Forster, 1968) – NZ

See also

• List of Pycnothelidae species

Further reading

• Main. B. Y.. 1972. The mygalomorph spider genus Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine (Dipluridae) and its relationship to Aname Koch and certain other diplurine genera. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 100–114. 55.
• Forster. R. R.. 1968. The spiders of New Zealand. Part II. Ctenizidae, Dipluridae. Otago Museum Bulletin. 126–180. 2.
• Hogg. H. R.. 1901. On Australian and New Zealand spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 218–279. 71. 1. 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08176.x.
• Raven. R. J.. 1981. A review of the Australian genera of the mygalomorph spider subfamily Diplurinae (Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian Journal of Zoology. 321–363. 29. 3. 10.1071/ZO9810321.

External links

• Melbourne Trapdoor spider
• Melbourne Trap-door Spider Stanwellia grisea
• Victorian Funnel web, Trap-door spiders and Mouse spiders. Which spiders do Victorians mistake for a Sydney Funnel-web?

Notes and References

1. Rainbow. W. J.. Pulleine. R. H.. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum. 81–169. 12. 7. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.12.1918.882. free.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 82. Robert_Raven.
3. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
4. Gen. Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.