Mollemeta

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Mollemeta edwardsi

| authority = (Simon, 1904)

| parent_authority = Álvarez-Padilla, 2007

| synonyms =

• Dolichognatha edwardsi (Simon, 1904){{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1981| title=The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=149| pages=271–318| author-link=Herbert Walter Levi}}
• Landana edwardsi Simon, 1904

}}

Mollemeta is a monotypic genus of long-jawed orb-weavers endemic to Chile. It contains the single species, Mollemeta edwardsi,{{cite journal| title=Gen. Mollemeta Álvarez-Padilla, 2007| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-11-30| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3295| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}} first described as Landana edwardsi, based on a female found in 1904.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1904| title=Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| volume=48| page=94| author-link=Eugène Simon}} The name is a reference to "Molle", the Mapudungun word for "tree", because it builds its vertical orb webs on tree trunks.{{cite journal| last=Álvarez-Padilla| first=F.| year=2007| title=Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| pages=320–322| volume=151| issue=2| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00304.x| doi-access=free}} It is in a clade with Allende, Chrysometa, Dolichognatha, Meta, and Metellina due to several autapomorphies, including the unique shapes of the cymbium, conductor, and embolus.