Melloina

Melloina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Melloina; Brignoli, 1985
Type species
	M. gracilis; (Schenkel, 1953)
Species
	M. gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela ; M. rickwesti Raven, 1999 – Panama ; M. santuario Bertani, 2013 – Venezuela;
Synonyms
	Glabropelma Raven, 1985;

Melloina is a genus of baldlegged spiders that was first described by Paolo Marcello Brignoli in 1985.^[3] As of June 2019^[update] it contains only three species, found only in Panama and Venezuela: M. gracilis, M. rickwesti, and M. santuario.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Melloina Brignoli, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 112.
^ Brignoli, P. M. (1985). "On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 6 (9): 380.

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