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Genus: Zercidium Benoit, 1977 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Zercidium helenense Benoit, 1977

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008940

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Type Repository Provide information

Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (Ara.133416) - (Benoit, 1977i)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium mm ff jj - (Benoit, 1977i)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (Ara.133291) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)

Taxonomic References

Zercidium helenense Benoit, 1977i: 150, f. 66a-f (Dmf) Original description

Zercidium helenense Vanuytven, 2021: 21, 303, f. A.6b-c, B.338a-c (m)

Zercidium helenense Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1285, f. 80A-G, 81A-F, 82 (mf)

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977i). Fam. Theridiidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 131-152. -- 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

Vanuytven, H. (2021). The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 35(Supplement): 1-363. -- 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
2021-02-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Vanuytven, 2021