''Shearella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of Asian

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their cl ...

spiders in the family

Tetrablemmidae Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Afric ...

that was first described by

Pekka T. Lehtinen Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnology, arachnologist and taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated. Biography Lehtinen was born on 5 April ...

in 1981.

Species

it contains four species, found in Asia: *''

Shearella alii ''Shearella'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Tetrablemmidae that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1981. Species it contains four species, found in Asia: *'' Shearella alii'' Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 – India ...

'' Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 –

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

*''

Shearella lilawati ''Shearella lilawati'' is a species of spider of the genus ''Shearella''. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. The specific name refers to Queen Lilawati, who reigned intermittently between 1197 and 1212 in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. See also * List of T ...

'' Lehtinen, 1981 ( type) –

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

*'' Shearella sanya'' Lin & Li, 2010 –

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

*'' Shearella selvarani'' Lehtinen, 1981 – Sri Lanka

References

Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Asia Spiders of Madagascar Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen Tetrablemmidae {{Tetrablemmidae-stub