First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador

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1 Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
2 Department of Geography, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
3 Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador
4 Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2242v1
Published
Accepted
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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Cite this article
Cisneros-Heredia DF, Carrazco I. 2016. First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2242v1

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.