Molinaranea

Molinaranea; Temporal range: Neogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Molinaranea; Mello-Leitão, 1940
Type species
	M. magellanica; (Walckenaer, 1847)
Species
	7, see text

Molinaranea is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seven species:

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

1 2 "Gen. Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
↑ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940). "Arañas de las islas Juan Fernandez, recogidas por el Señor R. Wagenknecht". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 44: 236–239.

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