Schenkeliella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Tetragnathidae |
Genus: |
Schenkeliella Strand, 1934 [1] |
Species: | S. spinosa
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Binomial name | |
Schenkeliella spinosa (
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)
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Schenkeliella is a monotypic genus of Sri Lankan long-jawed orb-weavers containing the single species, Schenkeliella spinosa. [1] The species was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871 under the name Oeta spinosa, [2] but it was renamed to "Schenkeliella" by Embrik Strand in 1934 because the name was already in use for a genus of ermine moths. [3] Originally placed with the Nesticidae, [3] it transferred to the Tetragnathidae in 1980. [4]