Bertrana
Appearance
Bertrana | |
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Bertrana striolata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Bertrana Keyserling, 1884[1] |
Type species | |
B. striolata Keyserling, 1884
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Species | |
12, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Bertrana is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884.[3] It includes some of the smallest known araneid orb-weavers.[4][5] Bertrana striolata females are 4.5 mm long or less.[4][5] The eight eyes are in two rows. The abdomen is white on top and on the sides, with multiple hieroglyphic-like lines and bars of many different shapes and length. In females, these are red, in males, black.[6]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- Bertrana abbreviata (Keyserling, 1879) – Colombia
- Bertrana arena Levi, 1989 – Costa Rica
- Bertrana benuta Levi, 1994 – Colombia
- Bertrana elinguis (Keyserling, 1883) – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, French Guiana
- Bertrana laselva Levi, 1989 – Costa Rica
- Bertrana nancho Levi, 1989 – Peru
- Bertrana planada Levi, 1989 – Colombia, Ecuador
- Bertrana poa Levi, 1994 – Ecuador
- Bertrana rufostriata Simon, 1893 – Venezuela, Brazil
- Bertrana striolata Keyserling, 1884 – Costa Rica to Argentina
- Bertrana urahua Levi, 1994 – Ecuador
- Bertrana vella Levi, 1989 – Panama, Colombia
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Bertrana Keyserling, 1884". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 6.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1884). "Neue Spinnen aus America. V." Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 33: 649–684. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25328.
- ^ a b Levi, H.W. (1989). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Epeiroides, Bertrana, and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 96 (1–2): 75–99. doi:10.1155/1989/65890.
- ^ a b Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Carrazco, I. (2016). "First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador". PeerJ Preprints. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2242v1.
- ^ Chickering, A. M. (1963). "The Female of Bertrana hieroglyphica Petrunkevitch (Araneac, Argiopidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 70: 129–132. doi:10.1155/1963/30864.
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