Molinaranea
Genus of spiders
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Molinaranea is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.[2]
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| Molinaranea Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. magellanica (Walckenaer, 1847) | |
| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- Molinaranea clymene (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Molinaranea fernandez Levi, 2001 – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
- Molinaranea magellanica (Walckenaer, 1847) – Chile, Argentina, Juan Fernandez Is., Falkland Is.
- Molinaranea mammifera (Tullgren, 1902) – Chile
- Molinaranea phaethontis (Simon, 1896) – Chile, Argentina
- Molinaranea surculorum (Simon, 1896) – Chile
- Molinaranea vildav Levi, 2001 – Chile
