Tekellina
| Tekellina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Tekellina Levi, 1957 |
| Type species | |
| T. archboldi Levi, 1957 | |
| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Tekellina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1957.
Species
As of June 2020[update] it contains nine species, found in east Asia and the Americas:
- Tekellina archboldi Levi, 1957 (type) – USA
- Tekellina bella Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
- Tekellina crica Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
- Tekellina guaiba Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
- Tekellina helixicis Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- Tekellina minor Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
- Tekellina pretiosa Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
- Tekellina sadamotoi Yoshida & Ogata, 2016 – Japan
- Tekellina yoshidai Marusik & Omelko, 2017 – Russia (Far East)
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Tekellina Levi, 1957". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ↑ Levi, H. W. (1957). "The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76: 105–115.
Further reading
- Marques, M. A. L.; Buckup, E. H. (1993). "Novas espécies de Tekellina do Brasil (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Iheringia. 74: 125–132.
- Marusik, Y. M.; Omelko, M. M. (2017). "A new species of Tekellina (Araneae, Araneoidea) from the Russian Far East". Entomologica Fennica. 28 (3): 164–168.
- Yoshida, H.; Ogata, K. (2016). "A new species of the newly recorded genus Tekellina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 65 (1): 15–18.
- Gao, C. X.; Li, S. Q. (2014). "Comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China". Zoological Systematics. 39 (1): 1–135.
- Buckup, E. H.; Marques, M. A. L. (1996). "Descrições, transferências e novas sinonímias em Theridiidae (Araneae)". Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 81: 45–62.
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