All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae)

Danniella Sherwood; Arnaud Henrard; Liza Fowler; Philip Ashmole

doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.780

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Danniella Sherwood,¹ Arnaud Henrard,² Liza Fowler,³ Philip Ashmole⁴

¹Arachnology Research Association, London and Fundación Ariguanabo, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and IUCN Species Survival Commission, Mid-Atlantic Islands Invertebrate Specialist Group email: danni.sherwood@hotmail.com
²Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
³Saint Helena National Trust, Jamestown, Saint Helena and IUCN Species Survival Commission, Mid-Atlantic Islands Invertebrate Specialist Group
⁴University of Edinburgh

Abstract

The type material of three species of the endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 on Saint Helena are re-examined. Tecution helenicola Benoit, 1977 syn. nov. and Tecution mellissi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) syn. nov. are synonymized with Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873), based on identical palpal morphology and the discovery of a gradient of cheliceral size variation in a large amount of non-type material from Saint Helena Island. A brief discussion on the habitat and ecology of T. planum is provided.

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Danniella Sherwood, Arnaud Henrard, Liza Fowler, and Philip Ashmole "All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae)," Arachnology 19(5), 780-787, (10 July 2023). https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.780

Published: 10 July 2023

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