Stanwellia

Genus of spiders

Stanwellia
Melbourne trapdoor spider
(Stanwellia grisea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Pycnothelidae
Genus: Stanwellia
Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918[1]
Type species
S. hoggi
(Rainbow, 1914)
Species

18, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Aparua Todd, 1945[2]

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.[3] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders,[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[4] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.[5] It is a senior synonym of Aparua.[2]

Species

Melbourne Trapdoor Spider: Composite image of same spider from various angles. Center image as seen in natural surroundings (sandy loam soil). Location: found in moist soil at Carnegie, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

As of June 2020[update] 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):[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. ^ a b Main, B. Y. (1983). "Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south Western Australia". Journal of Natural History. 17 (6): 923. doi:10.1080/00222938300770731.
  3. ^ a b Rainbow, W. J.; Pulleine, R. H. (1918). "Australian trap-door spiders". Records of the Australian Museum. 12 (7): 81–169. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.12.1918.882.
  4. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 82.
  5. ^ Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.

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. 55: 100–114.
  • Forster, R. R. (1968). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part II. Ctenizidae, Dipluridae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 2: 126–180.
  • Hogg, H. R. (1901). "On Australian and New Zealand spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 71 (1): 218–279. doi: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. 29 (3): 321–363. doi:10.1071/ZO9810321.
  • 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?
Taxon identifiers
Stanwellia


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