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Tecution

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Family
  
Eutichuridae

Rank
  
Genus

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Spider

Similar
  
Mituliodon, Drymusa, Cheiracanthium inclusum

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

Species

As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

  • Tecution helenicola Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
  • Tecution mellissi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – St. Helena
  • Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type species) – St. Helena

    • References

    Tecution Wikipedia
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