Stanwellia
Genus of spiders
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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 | |
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| Melbourne trapdoor spider (Stanwellia grisea) | |
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| 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 | |
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18, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
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
