Selkirkiella Explained

Selkirkiella is a genus of South American comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1924. Originally placed with the Araneidae, it was transferred to the comb-footed spiders in 1972.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Chile, Argentina, and on the Falkland Islands:^[2]

• Selkirkiella alboguttata Berland, 1924 (type) – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
• Selkirkiella carelmapuensis (Levi, 1963) – Chile
• Selkirkiella luisi (Levi, 1967) – Chile
• Selkirkiella magallanes (Levi, 1963) – Chile
• Selkirkiella michaelseni (Simon, 1902) – Chile
• Selkirkiella purpurea (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Selkirkiella ventrosa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
• Selkirkiella wellingtoni (Levi, 1967) – Chile

In synonymy:

• S. portazuelo (Levi, 1967) = Selkirkiella alboguttata Berland, 1924
• S. recurvata (Tullgren, 1901) = Selkirkiella ventrosa (Nicolet, 1849)
• S. transversa (Nicolet, 1849) = Selkirkiella purpurea (Nicolet, 1849)
• S. triangulifer (Simon, 1902) = Selkirkiella ventrosa (Nicolet, 1849)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Further reading

• Agnarsson. I.. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 447–626. 141. 4.
• Levi. H. W.. 1967. The theridiid spider fauna of Chile. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1–20. 136.
• Levi. H. W.. 1963. The American spiders of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 30–48. 82.

Notes and References

1. Levi. H. W.. 1972. Taxonomic-nomenclatural notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with observations on Anelosimus. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 91. 536. Herbert_Walter_Levi.
2. Web site: Gen. Selkirkiella Berland, 1924. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-14. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.