Bertrana
Sign in to saveBertrana is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884. It includes some of the smallest known araneid orb-weavers. Bertrana striolata females are 4.5 mm long or less. 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.
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Vinony files it under Araneidae genera, Spiders of Central America and Spiders of South America.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MNRJ, MPEG, USNM
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Brasil
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- Bertrana
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- taxonomic type
- Bertrana striolata
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Bertrana is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884. It includes some of the smallest known araneid orb-weavers. Bertrana striolata females are 4.5 mm long or less. 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.
==Species== it contains twelve species: 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
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