Selkirkiella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Theridiidae
Subfamilia: Pholcommatinae
Genus: Selkirkiella
Species: S. alboguttata – S. carelmapuensis – S. luisi – S. magallanes – S. michaelseni – S. purpurea – S. ventrosa – S. wellingtoni
Name

Selkirkiella Berland, 1924

Type species: Selkirkiella alboguttata Lucien Berland, 1924

gender: feminine
References
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Additional references

Selkirkiella is a genus of South American comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1924.[2] Originally placed with the Araneidae,[2] it was transferred to the comb-footed spiders in 1972.[3]
Species

As of June 2020 it contains eight species, found in Chile, Argentina, and on the Falkland Islands:[1]

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

References

"Gen. Selkirkiella Berland, 1924". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
Berland, L. (1924), "Araignées de l'ile de Pàques et des iles Juan Fernandez", The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island

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.

Further reading
Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626.
Levi, H. W. (1967). "The theridiid spider fauna of Chile". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 136: 1–20.
Levi, H. W. (1963). "The American spiders of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 82: 30–48.
Nicolet, H. (1849), "Aracnidos", in Gay, C. (ed.), Historia física y política de Chile