Taxon details

Family: Cheiracanthiidae / Genus: Tecution

Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m
  • Last updated: 2023-07-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023606]
  • Distribution: St. Helena
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (Ara.133289) of Tecution helenicola (Sherwood et al., 2023c)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m (298.9) (Sherwood et al., 2023c)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m (298.8) of Tecution mellissi (Sherwood et al., 2023c)
Taxonomic references
Cheiracanthium mellissii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 214, pl. 24, f. 4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023605].
Cheiracanthium planum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 215, pl. 24, f. 5 (Dm).
Tecution helenicola Benoit, 1977e: 77, f. 31a-d (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023604].
Tecution mellissi Benoit, 1977e: 75, f. 30a-e (m, T from Cheiracanthium).
Tecution planum Benoit, 1977e: 72, f. 28a-d, 29a-d (m, T from Cheiracanthium).
Tecution planum Sherwood et al., 2023c: 781, f. 1-46 (mf, S of Tecution helenicola and T. mellissi).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977e). Fam. Clubionidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 64-81. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873e). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 210-227, pl. 24. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00504.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Fowler, L. & Ashmole, P. (2023c). All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae). Arachnology 19(5): 780-787. doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.780 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-02 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2023c n/a
2023-07-02 Species synonymy Sherwood et al., 2023c Tecution helenicola synonymized with Tecution planum
2023-07-02 Species synonymy Sherwood et al., 2023c Tecution mellissi synonymized with Tecution planum