Tekellina

Tekellina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1957.[2]

Tekellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Tekellina
Levi, 1957[1]
Type species
T. archboldi
Levi, 1957
Species

9, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains nine species, found in east Asia and the Americas:[1]

  • 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)
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See also

References
  1. "Gen. Tekellina Levi, 1957". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  2. 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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