Sciastes

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

Sciastes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Sciastes
Bishop & Crosby, 1938[1]
Type species
S. truncatus
(Emerton, 1882)
Species

7, see text

Species

As of May 2019 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

See also

References

  1. 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.
  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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