Sciastes

Sciastes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

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

Species

As of May 2019^[update] 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

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

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.