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N.B.: the authorship of the family is corrected from Menge, 1866: 90 to Simon, 1864: 244 (sub Tetragnathiens) following the arguing by Marusik & Özkütük, 2026: 276, the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet, Platnick and in the WSC until 2026; considered a senior synonym of Metidae Simon, 1894a: 726 (sub Meteae) by Heimer & Nentwig, 1982: 292 and Levi, 1986a: 93 (although not by Wunderlich, 1986: 115); Metidae/Metinae is preoccupied in the Copepoda and emened to Metainae by ICZN, 2013 (Opinion 2326) following the proposal of Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011b; Diphyini is preoccupied in the Hydrozoa and emened to Diphyaini by ICZN, 2021 (Opinion 3774) following the proposal of Marusik, 2018d; see also the notes at the Araneidae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae; includes taxa placed by Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 in the "Nanometidae" (see Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 802); also Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318 and Pachygnathidae Menge, 1866: 94 are included; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list five subfamilies as valid: Diphyainae Simon, 1894a: 742 (sub Diphyeae), Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318, Metainae, Nanometinae Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 and Tetragnathinae.
In synonymy:
Anopas Archer, 1951 = Tylorida Simon, 1894 (Chrysanthus, 1975: 31)
Sternospina Schmidt & Krause, 1993 = Tylorida Simon, 1894 (Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008: 50)
Transferred to other genera:
Tylorida culta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) -- see Mesida
In synonymy:
Tylorida concretipalpis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993, T from Sternospina) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) (Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008: 51)
Tylorida cylindrata (Wang, 1991) = Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) (Sankaran et al., 2017b: 297)
Tylorida magniventer Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) (Tanikawa, 2005a: 151)
Tylorida nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) (Sankaran et al., 2017b: 308)
Tylorida pondae (Tikader, 1970) = Tylorida ventralis (Thorell, 1877) (Sankaran et al., 2017b: 310)
Tylorida sataraensis Kulkarni, 2014 = Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) (Sankaran et al., 2017b: 297)
Tylorida silentvalliensis (Biswas & Roy, 2004, T from Pachygnatha) = Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020b: 199)
Tylorida sphenoida (Wang, 1991, T from Leucauge) = Tylorida ventralis (Thorell, 1877) (Zhu, Wu & Song, 2002: 29)
Tylorida stellimicans (Simon, 1886) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) (Kulkarni & Yadav, 2015: 3)
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