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 | |
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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
- 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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