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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cheiracanthiidae |
| Genus: | Tecution Benoit, 1977 |
| Species: | T. planum |
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| Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) | |
Tecution is a genus of spiders from Saint Helena within the family Cheiracanthiidae. 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 Cheiracanthiidae (syn. Eutichuridae) by Ramírez in 2014. The genus originally consisted of three species until fieldwork and morphological analysis by British arachnologist Danniella Sherwood and Saint Helenian colleagues demonstrated there is just one variable species, Tecution planum.
References
- "Taxon details Tecution planum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-02-23
- ^ "Gen. Tecution Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- 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.
- Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Fowler, L. & Ashmole, P. (2023). "All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae)". 'Arachnology' 19(5): 780–787.
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