Tecution

Tecution
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cheiracanthiidae
Genus:	Tecution; Benoit, 1977
Species
	See text.

Tecution is a genus of spiders from Saint Helena within the family Cheiracanthiidae. They were first described and named by Benoit in 1977.^[1]^[2] It was originally placed in the Clubionidae, but it was moved to Miturgidae in 1997, then to Cheiracanthiidae (syn. Eutichuridae) by Ramírez in 2014.^[3] The genus consists of three species.

Species[]

As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – St. Helena
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type species) – St. Helena

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Tecution Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
^ Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Clubionidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Saite-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220, 64-81.
^ Ramírez, M.J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 4. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.

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[WSC_g1972-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Tecution Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-05.

[2] Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Clubionidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Saite-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220, 64-81.

[3] Ramírez, M.J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 4. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.

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