Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01522 ]
N.B.: implicitly revalidated by Levi, 1991a: 177, contra Archer, 1951a: 21, who regarded it as a junior synonym of Eriophora, and Archer, 1963: 25, who regarded it as a junior synonym of Parawixia, and Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1963: 107, who regarded it as a junior synonym of Araneus.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-04-29
Described in
Mello-Leitão, 1940g: 237 (type Molinaranea molinai Mello-Leitão, 1940; gender feminine; syn. of Molinaranea magellanica (Walckenaer, 1847))
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Counts Status
7accepted
18synonym
Reference

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940g). Arañas de las islas Juan Fernandez, recogidas por el Señor R. Wagenknecht. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 44: 236-239. download pdf

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