Staveleya

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.^[2] The type species was originally described under the name "Microneta pusilla",^[3] but the type species is designated one of the junior synonyms, "Cnephalocotes dahli" because it has a physical specimen.^[4][5] The genus is named in honour of Eliza Fanny Staveley, the first woman to publish research on arachnology in the United Kingdom.^[6]

Staveleya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Staveleya Sherwood, 2021[1]
Type species
Cnephalocotes dahli (Menge, 1869)
Species
4, see text
Synonyms[1]
Hypsocephalus Millidge, 1978[2]

Species

As of December 2021^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

• 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)

References

1. "Gen. Staveleya Sherwood, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
2. Sherwood, D. (2021). "A replacement name for Hypsocephalus Millidge, 1978 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Serket. 18 (1): 64–66.
3. Menge, A. (1869). "Preussische Spinnen" [Prussian Spiders]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3 (2): 219–264.
4. Frick, H.; Staręga, W. (2009). "Hypsocephalus dahli is a junior synonym of Microneta pusilla (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 37: 12–14. doi:10.5431/aramit3703.
5. Lessert, R. de (1909). "Note sur deux araignées nouvelles de la famille des Argiopidae" [Note on two new spiders of the Argiopidae family]. Revue suisse de Zoologie (in French). 17: 79–83. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.3773.
6. Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.

Further reading

• Canard, A.; Cruveillier, M. (2016). "Rectifications nomenclaturales à apporter au catalogue mondial des araignées (1ère note)" [Nomenclatural corrections to be made to the world catalog of spiders (1st note)]. Revue Arachnologique (in French). 3: 42–45.

• Gnelitsa, V. A. (2009). "A survey of Crimean Linyphiidae (Aranei). 1. On seven rare and little known linyphiids from Crimea". Arthropoda Selecta. 17: 191–202.

• Frick, H. (2008). "First record of Hypsocephalus dahli in Switzerland with a review of its distribution, ecology and taxonomy (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 35: 35–44. doi: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 (in German). 44 (for 1993): 7–36.