Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Molinaranea

Molinaranea magellanica (Walckenaer, 1847)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037389]
  • Distribution: Chile, Argentina, Juan Fernandez Is., Falkland Is.
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Eriophora wagenknechti Mello-Leitão, 1940, (00521); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Molinaranea molinai Mello-Leitão, 1940, (00581); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Epeira magellanica Walckenaer, 1847a: 467 (Df).
Epeira chilensis Nicolet, 1849: 487 (Df).
Epeira cinaberina Nicolet, 1849: 490, pl. 5, f. 9 (Df).
Epeira flaviventris Nicolet, 1849: 494 (Df).
Epeira quadripunctata Nicolet, 1849: 495 (Df; preoccupied by Linnaeus, 1758).
Epeira obliterata Nicolet, 1849: 496 (Dmf).
Epeira affinis Nicolet, 1849: 498 (Df; preoccupied by Blackwell, 1846).
Epeira naevia Nicolet, 1849: 499 (Dm).
Epeira dorsalis Nicolet, 1849: 499 (Df; preoccupied by Fabricius, 1775).
Epeira quadrimaculata Nicolet, 1849: 507 (Df; preoccupied by De Geer, 1778 sub Aranea).
Epeira flaviventris Simon, 1884l: 121, pl. 3, f. 2-4 (f).
Epeira flaviventris Simon, 1887h: E10, pl. 2, f. 2 (f).
Araneus flaviventris Simon, 1901b: 19.
Araneus patagonicus Tullgren, 1901b: 218 (Dj).
Araneus chilensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 285.
Araneus cinnaberinus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 285.
Araneus quadrimaculatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 311.
Araneus vallentini Hogg, 1913: 37, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df).
Araneus globiger Hogg, 1913: 39, pl. 1, f. 4 (Dm).
Eriophora wagenknechti Mello-Leitão, 1940g: 236, f. 24a-b (Df).
Molinaranea molinai Mello-Leitão, 1940g: 238, f. 25a-b (Dm).
Aranea affinitata Roewer, 1942a: 836 (replacement name for Epeira affinis Nicolet, 1849).
Aranea dorsatula Roewer, 1942a: 841 (replacement name for Epeira dorsalis Nicolet, 1849).
Aranea quadrimaculosa Roewer, 1942a: 850 (replacement name for Epeira quadrimaculata Nicolet, 1849).
Aranea quadripunctatula Roewer, 1942a: 850 (replacement name for Epeira quadripunctata Nicolet, 1849).
Araneus cinnabarinus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1963: 107 (Sm).
Parawixia affinitata Archer, 1963: 24 (Tf from Araneus).
Parawixia cinnaberina Archer, 1963: 24 (Tf from Araneus).
Parawixia cinnaberina tigrina Archer, 1963: 24 (Dmf).
Parawixia dosatula Archer, 1963: 24 (Tf from Araneus).
Parawixia wagenknechti Archer, 1963: 25 (Tf from Eriophora, S).
Parawixia flaviventris Archer, 1963: 25 (Tf from Araneus).
Parawixia obliterata Archer, 1963: 25 (Tf from Araneus).
Parawixia naevia Archer, 1963: 25 (Tf from Araneus).
Metepeira chilensis Archer, 1963: 26 (Tf from Araneus).
Araneus cinnabarinus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1974: 86, f. 43-46 (mf, S).
Molinaranea chilensis Levi, 1991a: 178 (Tf from Metepeira).
Molinaranea patagonica Levi, 1991a: 178 (Tj from Araneus).
Molinaranea cinaberina Levi, 1991a: 179 (Tf from Parawixia).
Molinaranea magellanica Levi, 2001: 451, f. 1-22, pl. 1B-D (mf, S).
Molinaranea magellanica Levi, 2002: 543, f. 123, 125, 296 (mf).
References

Archer, A. F. (1963). Catalogo de las arañas chilenas de las families de la division Metarachnae. Publicaciones Ocasionales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago 1: 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1913). Some Falkland Island spiders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 83(1): 37-50, pl. 1-2. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1913.tb01981.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2001). The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 445-475. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 -- Show included taxa

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16172 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1963). Los géneros chilenos Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 y Paraphysa Simon, 1892 (Theraphosidae, Araneae) en la Argentina. Nuevas citas de algunas arañas comunes a ambos paises. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 26: 103-108. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1974). Arañas de las islas Malvinas. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 4: 79-93. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884l). Arachnides recueillis par la Mission du Cap Horn en 1882-1883. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9(1-2): 117-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887h). Arachnides. In: Mission scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882-1883. Paris 6, E1-E42, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901b). Liste des arachnides recueillis par M. Ch. E. Porter en 1899 à Quilpué et à Molle, et par M. B. Wilson en avril 1900 au Rio Aysen (Patagonie occidentale). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 5: 17-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1901b). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of the Magellan Territories. In: Svenska Expeditionen till Magellansländerna. 2(10), 181-263. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1847a). Dernier Supplément. In: Walckenaer, C. A. & Gervais, P. (eds.) Histoire naturelles des Insects. Aptères. Tome quatrième. Roret, Paris, pp. 365-596 [Araneae: -564]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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