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Tekellina Levi 1957

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3.27 Genus Tekellina Levi, 1957

Diagnosis. Members of this genus are less than 1.3 mm in length and differ from those of other genera by the weakly sclerotized and modified prosoma; chelicerae without teeth; abdomen wider than long; colulus replaced by two setae; pedipalpus with end of median apophysis lying against paracymbial hook near margin of cymbium; cymbium almost circular (Levi & Levi, 1962).

Notes

Published as part of Gao, Cai-Xia & Li, Shu-Qiang, 2014, Comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, pp. 1-135 in Zoological Systematics 39 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11865/zs20140101, http://zenodo.org/record/7475365

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Levi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Tekellina
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Tekellina Levi, 1957 sec. Gao & Li, 2014