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).

In synonymy:

Marxia McCook, 1894 = Acanthepeira Marx, 1883 (Kaston, 1938f: 259)

Gen. Acanthepeira Marx, 1883 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01419

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Marxia McCook, 1894: 192 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05933] (type Epeira stellata Walckenaer, 1805) by Kaston, 1938f: 259.

In synonymy:

Acanthepeira cerasiae (Walckenaer, 1841, T from Araneus) = Acanthepeira stellata Walckenaer, 1805 (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 105, sub Marxia)

Acanthepeira iris (Walckenaer, 1841, T from Araneus) = Acanthepeira stellata Walckenaer, 1805 (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 105, sub Marxia)

Nomina dubia:

Acanthepeira grisea (McCook, 1894: 195, pl. 13, f. 10, f, USA, originally in Marxia) -- Levi, 1976: 363

Acanthepeira moestella Roewer, 1942a: 777 (replacement name for Epeira moesta Keyserling, 1892: 108, pl. 5, f. 80, f, USA, preoccupied by Blackwall, 1865, see Cyclosa insulana) -- Levi, 1976: 363

Acanthepeira cherokee Levi, 1976 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014418

Acanthepeira cherokee Levi, 1976: 366, f. 24, 29-35, 42-43 (Dmf) Original description

Acanthepeira cherokee Breene et al., 1993: 103, f. 153A-B (mf)

Acanthepeira labidura (Mello-Leitão, 1943) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014419

Marxia labidura Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 184, f. 22 (Dm) Original description

Acanthepeira labidura Brignoli, 1983c: 255

Acanthepeira marion Levi, 1976 | | USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014420

Acanthepeira marion Levi, 1976: 368, f. 25, 36-41, 44 (Dmf) Original description

Acanthepeira stellata (Walckenaer, 1805) | | Canada to Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014421

Epeira stellata Walckenaer, 1805: 65 (Df) Original description

Epeira nobilis Walckenaer, 1841: 119 (Df)

Epeira cerasiae Walckenaer, 1841: 119 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057207]

Epeira iris Walckenaer, 1841: 120 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057208]

Plectana stellata Walckenaer, 1841: 171

Epeira stellata Hentz, 1850: 22, pl. 3, f. 12 (f)

Epeira stellata Keyserling, 1864: 140, pl. 6, f. 24-25 (f)

Acrosoma stellatum Butler, 1873b: 427

Acanthepeira stellata Marx, 1883: 22

Epeira stellata Emerton, 1884: 319, pl. 34, f. 17, pl. 37, f. 3-5 (f, Dm)

Cyrtarachne mexicana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893b: pl. 14, f. 13 (f, nomen nudum)

Cyrtarachne dugesi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893b: 113 (Df)

Marxia nobilis McCook, 1894: 194, pl. 13, f. 7-9 (mf)

Marxia stellata McCook, 1894: 193, pl. 12, f. 4-5 (mf)

Araneus stellata Simon, 1895a: 801

Epeira stellata Emerton, 1902: 179, f. 419-420 (f)

Marxia stellata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 481, pl. 45, f. 21-22 (mf)

Araneus cerasiae Petrunkevitch, 1911: 285

Araneus iris Petrunkevitch, 1911: 298

Araneus stellatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 317 (T from Marxia)

Marxia stellata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 105 (S of Araneus cerasiae and A. iris)

Acanthepeira stellata Kaston, 1948: 234, f. 714-716, 734 (mf)

Acanthepeira venusta Bryant, 1950b: 175, f. 4-5 (m, misidentified)

Acanthepeira stellata Levi, 1976: 364, f. 12-23 (mf, designated as type species)

Acanthepeira stellata Levi, 1978b: 10, f. 12-14 (m)

Acanthepeira stellata Breene et al., 1993: 103, f. 152A-C (mf)

Acanthepeira stellata Levi, 2002: 538, f. 60-61, 220-221 (mf)

Acanthepeira stellata Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 41, f. 251-253 (mf)

Acanthepeira stellata Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1016, f. 20A-B, 22C,H, 24A-B, 26A, 30A, 33C, 40A-B, 47E, 51E, 54G, 58C, 62D, 64E, 75A-F, 109A-F (mf)

Acanthepeira venusta (Banks, 1896) | | USA, Cuba, Hispaniola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014422

Plectana venusta Banks, 1896e: 69 (Df) Original description

Araneus venustus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 323 (assigned to subgenus Marxia)

Acanthepeira venusta Bryant, 1950b: 175, f. 1-3 (f, not m, f. 4-5, =A. stellata)

Acanthepeira venusta Levi, 1976: 369, f. 26-28, 45, 51-56 (f, Dm)