Tekellina

Tekellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Tekellina Levi, 1957 [1]
Type species
T. archboldi Levi, 1957
Species
9, see text

Tekellina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1957. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2020 ^[update] it contains nine species, found in east Asia and the Americas: ^[1]

• 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)

References

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

Further reading

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