Stanwellia

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]

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]

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 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. "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. 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. 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.


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