''Megaraneus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
n
orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, ''Megaraneus gabonensis''. It was first described by R. F. Lawrence in 1968,
to contain the single species originally published under the name ''Epeira gabonensis''.
References
Araneidae
Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
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