Stanwellia

Stanwellia
Melbourne trapdoor spider (Stanwellia grisea)
S. grisea
Scientific classification
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]
AparuaTodd, 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]

• Stanwellia annulipes (C. L. Koch, 1841) – TAS
• Stanwellia bipectinata (Todd, 1945) – NZ
• Stanwellia grisea (Hogg, 1901) – VIC
• Stanwellia hapua (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia hoggi (Rainbow, 1914) (type) – NSW
• Stanwellia hollowayi (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia houhora (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia inornata Main, 1972 – VIC
• Stanwellia kaituna (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia media (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia minor (Kulczyński, 1908) – NSW
• Stanwellia nebulosa (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – SA
• Stanwellia occidentalis Main, 1972 – SA
• Stanwellia pexa (Hickman, 1930) – TAS
• Stanwellia puna (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia regia (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia taranga (Forster, 1968) – NZ
• Stanwellia tuna (Forster, 1968) – NZ

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.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Stanwellia at iNaturalist

• 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?