The Female of Bertrana Hieroglyphica Petrunkevitch (Araneae, Argiopidae)
Four species of this very interesting genus are known at the present time. Keyserling (1884) established the genus and described the first known species from a group of females from Peras, Brazil. Two other species have been described from South America by Simon (1893); one of these was from Peru an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1963-01-01
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| Series: | Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1963/30864 |
| Summary: | Four species of this very interesting genus are known at the present
time. Keyserling (1884) established the genus and described the first
known species from a group of females from Peras, Brazil. Two
other species have been described from South America by Simon
(1893); one of these was from Peru and the other from Para, Brazil.
Dr. Petrunkevitch was the first to describe a male which was the only
specimen in the genus collected at the Wilcox camp on the San Lorenzo
River. I now have about five dozen specimens from various
parts of Panama and the Canal Zone with both sexes well represented.
I have thought it worth while to publish a description of the female
with very brief attention paid to the male. |
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| ISSN: | 0033-2615 1687-7438 |