Tekellina Explained

Tekellina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1957.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species, found in east Asia and the Americas:^[2]

• Tekellina archboldi Levi, 1957 (type) – USA
• Tekellina bella Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
• Tekellina crica Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
• Tekellina guaiba Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
• Tekellina helixicis Gao & Li, 2014 – China
• Tekellina minor Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
• Tekellina pretiosa Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
• Tekellina sadamotoi Yoshida & Ogata, 2016 – Japan
• Tekellina yoshidai Marusik & Omelko, 2017 – Russia (Far East)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Further reading

• Marques. M. A. L.. Buckup. E. H.. 1993. Novas espécies de Tekellina do Brasil (Araneae, Theridiidae). Iheringia. 125–132. 74.
• Marusik. Y. M.. Omelko. M. M.. 2017. A new species of Tekellina (Araneae, Araneoidea) from the Russian Far East. Entomologica Fennica. 164–168. 28. 3.
• Yoshida. H.. Ogata. K.. 2016. A new species of the newly recorded genus Tekellina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica. 15–18. 65. 1.
• Gao. C. X.. Li. S. Q.. 2014. Comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Zoological Systematics. 1–135. 39. 1.
• Buckup. E. H.. Marques. M. A. L.. 1996. Descrições, transferências e novas sinonímias em Theridiidae (Araneae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 45–62. 81.

Notes and References

1. Levi. H. W.. 1957. The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 105–115. 76. Herbert_Walter_Levi.
2. Web site: Gen. Tekellina Levi, 1957. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-14. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.