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)