Sciastes

Sciastes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Sciastes ; Bishop & Crosby, 1938
Type species
	S. truncatus ; (Emerton, 1882)
Species
	7, see text

Last updated January 25, 2026

Sciastes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by S. C. Bishop & C. R. Crosby in 1938.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains seven species, found in Europe and Russia:^[1]

Sciastes carli (Lessert, 1907) – France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
Sciastes dubius (Hackman, 1954) – Russia, Canada, USA
Sciastes extremus Holm, 1967 – Canada, Greenland
Sciastes hastatus Millidge, 1984 – USA, Canada
Sciastes mentasta (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947) – Canada, USA (Alaska)
Sciastes tenna Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
Sciastes truncatus (Emerton, 1882) (type) – USA, Canada

References

1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sciastes Bishop & Crosby, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.
↑ Bishop, S. C.; Crosby, C. R. (1938). "Studies in American spiders: Miscellaneous genera of Erigoneae, Part II". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 46: 55–107.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sciastes Bishop & Crosby, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.

[Bish1938-2] Bishop, S. C.; Crosby, C. R. (1938). "Studies in American spiders: Miscellaneous genera of Erigoneae, Part II". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 46: 55–107.

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