Tecution is a genus of spiders from Saint Helena within the family Cheiracanthiidae. They were first described and named by Benoit in 1977.[2][3] It was originally placed in the Clubionidae, but it was moved to Miturgidae in 1997, then to Cheiracanthiidae (syn. Eutichuridae) by Ramírez in 2014.[4] The genus originally consisted of three species until fieldwork and morphological analysis by British arachnologist Danniella Sherwood and Saint Helenian colleagues demonstrated there is just one variable species, Tecution planum.[5]

Tecution
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Genus: Tecution
Benoit, 1977[2]
Species:
T. planum
Binomial name
Tecution planum
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Taxon details Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-02-23
  2. ^ a b "Gen. Tecution Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  3. ^ Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Clubionidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Saite-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220, 64-81.
  4. ^ Ramírez, M.J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 4. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
  5. ^ Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Fowler, L. & Ashmole, P. (2023). "All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae)". 'Arachnology' 19(5): 780–787. [1]