Taxon details

Family: Dictynidae / Genus: Helenactyna

Helenactyna crucifer (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022441]
  • Distribution: St. Helena
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  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 2f (2297.18) (Sherwood et al., 2024e)
Taxonomic references
Amaurobius crucifer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 216, pl. 24, f. 6 (Df; for the ending of the specific epithet see ICZN Article 31.2.2).
Auximus crucifer Simon, 1892a: 239.
Auximus crucifer Lehtinen, 1967: 232, f. 342 (f).
Helenactyna crucifera Benoit, 1977a: 22, f. 6a-c (f, T from Auximus).
Helenactyna crucifera Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1226, f. 5A-E, 6A-D, 7A-C (Dm, f).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977a). Araignées cribellates. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 22-30. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873e). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 210-227, pl. 24. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00504.x 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

Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a
2024-11-04 First description of male Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a (Old value)