Helenactyna crucifer (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022441

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2f (2297.18) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)
Taxonomic References
Amaurobius crucifer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 216, pl. 24, f. 6 (Df; for the ending of the specific epithet see ICZN Article 31.2.2) Original description
Auximus crucifer Simon, 1892a: 239
Auximus crucifer Lehtinen, 1967: 232, f. 342 (f)
Helenactyna crucifera Benoit, 1977a: 22, f. 6a-c (f, T from Auximus)
Helenactyna crucifera Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1226, f. 5A-E, 6A-D, 7A-C (Dmf)
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977a). Araignées cribellates. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 22-30. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- 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 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-11-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2024e
2024-11-04 First description of male Sherwood et al., 2024e Old value

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