Belliena Simon, 1902

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3578, pp. 1-35 : 3-4

Genus Belliena Simon, 1902

Diagnosis. Small spiders with carapace relatively smooth. Some species with a bump-like projection in front of the spiracle opening in male (prespiracular bump). Genital organs typical for euophryines: embolus coiled anticlockwise (left palp, ventral view), tegulum with a proximal tegular lobe, retrolateral sperm duct loop present; epigynum with a window separated by the median septum. Similar to Neonella Gertsch (see Galiano 1988) in body form, but differs in the absence of a lamella along the embolus and the prolateral sperm duct loop, and in the presence of the retrolateral sperm duct loop on the male palp.

Remarks. Four species have been reported from Venezuela and Trinidad ( Platnick 2012). A new species from Ecuador is described here.