{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Colaranea |image=Colaranea brunnea.jpg | authority = Court & Forster, 1988<ref name=NMBE /> | subdivision = 4, see text | type_species = ''C. viriditas'' | type_species_authority = (Urquhart, 1887) | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Colaranea''''' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court & Raymond Robert Forster in 1988 that are endemic to New Zealand.<ref name="Cour1988">{{cite journal |last1=Court |first1=D. J. |last2=Forster |first2=R. R. |year=1988 |title=The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae. |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/6541 |journal=Otago Museum Bulletin |volume=6 |pages=68–124}}</ref>
== Description == ''Colaranea'' have variable colouration, but are typically brown, red, yellow and especially green.
== Distribution == ''Colaranea'' are widespread throughout the North Island and South Island of New Zealand.<ref name="Cour1988" />
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains four species, all found in New Zealand:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Colaranea Court & Forster, 1988| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-05-13| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/297}}</ref> *''Colaranea brunnea'' <small>Court & Forster, 1988</small> – New Zealand *''Colaranea melanoviridis'' <small>Court & Forster, 1988</small> – New Zealand *''Colaranea verutum'' <small>(Urquhart, 1887)</small> – New Zealand *''Colaranea viriditas'' <small>(Urquhart, 1887)</small> – New Zealand
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Category:Araneidae Category:Araneidae genera Category:Endemic spiders of New Zealand Category:Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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