4, see text Staveleya is a genus of European sheet weavers.

Its current name is a replacement for Hypsocephalus, already a genus in the snapper family of fish.

[2] The type species was originally described under the name "Microneta pusilla",[3] but the type species is designated one of the junior synonyms, "Cnephalocotes dahli" because it has a physical specimen.

[4][5] The genus is named in honour of Eliza Fanny Staveley, the first woman to publish research on arachnology in the United Kingdom.

[6] As of December 2021[update] it contains four species:[1] This Linyphiidae-related article is a stub.