First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Biogeography, Entomology, Zoology
- Keywords
- distribution, Neotropical, orb-weaver spider, Orellana, rainforest, Tiputini, Yasuní
- Copyright
- © 2016 Cisneros-Heredia et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2242v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2242v1
Abstract
We present the first record of the orb-weaver spider Bertrana striolata from Amazonian lowlands (east of the Andes) in Ecuador, based on a specimen collected at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, province of Orellana, Ecuador. In Ecuador, B. striolata was previously known from a single locality on the Pacific lowlands (4 km NE of the town of Pedro Vicente Maldonado, 550 m, province of Pichincha). To the best of our knowledge, this record also corresponds to the second locality of the species in the country, and the first record for the province of Orellana.
Author Comment
This manuscript contains the first record of a spider from Amazonian Ecuador. A version of this manuscript was submitted to a journal. However, this manuscript contains complete information about the record, and it will serve as a reference for studies on spider diversity in the Neotropics.