title: Tekellina
text: # Tekellina
  
  Tekellina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1957.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2020 it contains nine species, found in east Asia and the Americas:
  
  * Tekellina archboldi Levi, 1957 (type) – USA
  * Tekellina bella Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
  * Tekellina crica Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
  * Tekellina guaiba Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
  * Tekellina helixicis Gao & Li, 2014 – China
  * Tekellina minor Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
  * Tekellina pretiosa Marques & Buckup, 1993 – Brazil
  * Tekellina sadamotoi Yoshida & Ogata, 2016 – Japan
  * Tekellina yoshidai Marusik & Omelko, 2017 – Russia (Far East)
  