Stanwellia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Stanwellia |
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| Melbourne trapdoor spider (Stanwellia grisea) |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Pycnothelidae |
| Genus: | Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 |
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| S. hoggi (Rainbow, 1914)
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Stanwellia is a genus (a group of similar animals) of special spiders called mygalomorphs. These spiders live in the South Pacific, mainly in New Zealand and Australia. They belong to a spider family known as Pycnothelidae.
Scientists first described Stanwellia spiders in 1918. Over time, they moved these spiders to different groups as they learned more. At first, they were thought to be curtain-web spiders. Later, they were moved to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders. In 2020, they were finally placed in the Pycnothelidae family. Stanwellia is also the official name for a spider group that was once called Aparua.
Species
As of 2020, there are eighteen known species of Stanwellia spiders. You can find them in New Zealand and Australia.
- Stanwellia annulipes (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Australia (Tasmania)
- Stanwellia bipectinata (Todd, 1945) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia grisea (Hogg, 1901) – Australia (Victoria)
- Stanwellia hapua (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia hoggi (Rainbow, 1914) (type) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Stanwellia hollowayi (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia houhora (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia inornata Main, 1972 – Australia (Victoria)
- Stanwellia kaituna (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia media (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia minor (Kulczyński, 1908) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Stanwellia nebulosa (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (South Australia)
- Stanwellia occidentalis Main, 1972 – Australia (South Australia)
- Stanwellia pexa (Hickman, 1930) – Australia (Tasmania)
- Stanwellia puna (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia regia (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia taranga (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
- Stanwellia tuna (Forster, 1968) – New Zealand
See also
In Spanish: Stanwellia para niños
