Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Zercidium

Zercidium helenense Benoit, 1977

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008940]
  • Distribution: St. Helena
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (Ara.133291) (Sherwood et al., 2024e)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; mm ff jj (Benoit, 1977i)
  • Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (Ara.133416) (Benoit, 1977i)
Taxonomic references
Zercidium helenense Benoit, 1977i: 150, f. 66a-f (Dmf).
Zercidium helenense Vanuytven, 2021: 21, 303, f. A.6b-c, B.338a-c (m).
Zercidium helenense Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1285, f. 80A-G, 81A-F, 82 (mf).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977i). Fam. Theridiidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 131-152. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vanuytven, H. (2021). The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 35(Supplement): 1-363. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a
2021-02-15 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021 n/a