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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