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Genus: Tecution Benoit, 1977 | Family: Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887

Tecution planum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023606

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Type Repository 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) Original description

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. -- 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., 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 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2023c
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