World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: family name and authorship as per ICZN, 2009 Opinion 2224, after application by Kluge, 2007; Arkyinae L. Koch, 1872 (genera Arkys Walckenaer, 1837 and Demadiana Strand, 1929) elevated to Arkyidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244; monophyly of Araneidae stated by Kallal et al., 2018: 138; Nephilinae Simon, 1894 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0111] elevated to family and relimited by Kuntner, 2006: 24, re-synonymized with Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244; Nephilinae and Phonognathinae Simon, 1894 (Simon, 1894a: 746 as Phonognatheae), the valid name for Zygiellinae Simon, 1929 sensu Wunderlich, 2004f, elevated to family by Kuntner et al., 2019: 563, not accepted by Scharff et al., 2020 and Kallal et al., 2020, and confirmed as family by Kuntner et al., 2023: 969-970 along with the separation of Paraplectanoididae Kuntner, Coddington, Agnarsson & Bond, 2023 (with the single genus Paraplectanoides Keyserling, 1886); Nephilinae and Phonognathinae downgraded to subfamily and Paraplectanoididae considered a synonym of Araneidae by Hormiga et al., 2023: 803; 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).

Gen. Acacesia Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01418

In synonymy:

Acacesia alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 = Acacesia tenella L. Koch, 1871 (Glueck, 1994: 73, sub Acacesia cornigera)

Acacesia cornigera Petrunkevitch, 1925 = Acacesia tenella L. Koch, 1871 (Framenau, Scharff & Levi, 2009: 23)

Acacesia folifera (Marx, 1890) = Acacesia hamata Hentz, 1847 (Bryant, 1945a: 364)

Acacesia hallucinor (Petrunkevitch, 1911, T from Araneus) = Acacesia hamata Hentz, 1847 (Bryant, 1945a: 364)

Acacesia nigrolineata (Caporiacco, 1955) = Acacesia hamata Hentz, 1847 (Glueck, 1994: 70)

Acacesia pentagona Caporiacco, 1954 = Acacesia tenella L. Koch, 1871 (Glueck, 1994: 73, sub Acacesia cornigera)

Acacesia spinulosa Mello-Leitão, 1948 = Acacesia tenella L. Koch, 1871 (Glueck, 1994: 73, sub Acacesia cornigera)

Nomen dubium:

Acacesia peruviana Chamberlin, 1916: 244, pl. 18, f. 6 (f, Peru) -- Glueck, 1994: 73

Acacesia benigna Glueck, 1994 | | Peru, Bolivia, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014406

Acacesia benigna Glueck, 1994: 77, f. 23-27 (Dmf) Original description

Acacesia graciosa Lise & Braul, 1996 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014408

Acacesia graciosa Lise & Braul, 1996: 180, f. 1-17 (Dmf) Original description

Acacesia hamata (Hentz, 1847) | | USA to Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014409

Epeira hamata Hentz, 1847: 474, pl. 31, f. 10 (Dm) Original description

Epeira foliata Hentz, 1847: 475, pl. 31, f. 14 (Df; preoccupied by Fourcroy, 1785, see Larinioides cornutus)

Epeira foliata Emerton, 1884: 318, pl. 37, f. 6-10 (f, Dm)

Epeira folifera Marx, 1890a: 545, 593 (replacement name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057193]

Epeira foliata McCook, 1894: 154, pl. 4, f. 7-8 (mf)

Acacesia foliata Simon, 1895a: 795

Acacesia foliata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 502, pl. 48, f. 1-2 (mf)

Araneus hallucinor Petrunkevitch, 1911: 296 (replacement name for Epeira hamata Hentz, thought preoccupied in Araneus by Araneus hamatus Clerck, now in Singa) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057194]

Acacesia foliata Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 331, f. 213-214 (mf)

Acacesia lanceolata Badcock, 1932: 20, f. 14 (Df)

Acacesia foliata Comstock, 1940: 523, f. 546 (f)

Acacesia hamata Bryant, 1945a: 364 (S of Acacesia folifera = foliata Hentz and Araneus hallucinor)

Acacesia hamata Kaston, 1948: 235, f. 705, 725-726 (m)

Acacesia folifera Camargo, 1953: 306, f. 7, 35-38, 42-44 (m)

Araneus nigrolineatus Caporiacco, 1955: 357, f. 36a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057195]

Acacesia hamata Levi, 1976: 375, f. 74-87 (mf)

Acacesia nigrolineata Levi, 1991a: 178 (T from Araneus)

Acacesia hamata Breene et al., 1993: 104, f. 157A-C (mf)

Acacesia hamata Glueck, 1994: 69, f. 1, 4-8 (mf, S of Acacesia nigrolineata)

Acacesia hamata Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 374, f. 15 (m)

Acacesia hamata Levi, 2002: 557, f. 287-290 (m)

Acacesia tenella (L. Koch, 1871) | | Mexico to Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017149

Epeira tenella L. Koch, 1871: 76, pl. 6, f. 5-6 (Dmf) Original description

Acacesia cornigera Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 117, f. 32-41 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014407]

Acacesia alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936a: 54, pl. 16, f. 140 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057192]

Acacesia spinulosa Mello-Leitão, 1948: 158, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057197]

Wixia tenella Archer, 1951a: 15 (T from Araneus)

Acacesia pentagona Caporiacco, 1954: 87, f. 15, 15a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057196]

Acacesia cornigera Glueck, 1994: 73, f. 2-3, 9-16 (mf, S of Acacesia alticeps, A. pentagona and A. spinulosa)

Acacesia tenella Framenau, Scharff & Levi, 2009: 23, f. 1A-D, 2A-E (mf, T from Wixia, S of Acacesia cornigera)

Acacesia villalobosi Glueck, 1994 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014410

Acacesia villalobosi Glueck, 1994: 79, f. 28-33 (Dmf) Original description

Acacesia yacuiensis Glueck, 1994 | | Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014411

Acacesia yacuiensis Glueck, 1994: 75, f. 17-22 (Dmf) Original description