N.B.: the older name Ctenophoridae Blackwall, 1870a: 401 is not available, as Ctenophora Blackwall, 1870 is preoccupied in Diptera by Meigen, 1803; see also the notes under Heterognatha and Testudinaria (Araneidae); Oarcinae (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimitidae to the Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2012: Suppl. 1, p. 15; re-transfer to the Mimetidae by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards).
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Last updated: 2024-06-22
Genera counts
ACCEPTED: 8
SYNONYM: 4
Species counts
ACCEPTED: 162
SYNONYM: 27
NOMEN DUBIUM: 2
Taxonomic Reference
Original description
Simon,
1881a: 27
