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
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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]

Species

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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Staveleya Sherwood, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
  2. ^ a b 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.

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