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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. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Aparua.
Species
As of June 2020 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):
See also
List of Pycnothelidae species
References
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
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?