''Cetonana'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their ...
spiders in the family
Trachelidae
Trachelidae is a family of araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The Trachelidae fam ...
, first described by
Embrik Strand
Embrik Strand (2 June 1876 – 3 November 1947) was an entomologist and arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species including the greenbottle blue tarantula.
Life and career
Strand was born in Ål, Norway. He studied at t ...
in 1929.
Species
it contains five species:
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Cetonana laticeps''
(Canestrini, 1868) — Europe, Russia (Caucasus)
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Cetonana lineolata''
(Mello-Leitão, 1941) — Brazil
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Cetonana petrunkevitchi''
Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Brazil
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Cetonana setosa''
(Simon, 1897) — Brazil
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Cetonana shaanxiensis''
Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 — China
References
External links
Araneomorphae genera
Trachelidae
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