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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; Nephilinae and Phonognathinae downgraded to subfamily and Paraplectanoididae considered a synonym of Araneidae by Hormiga et al., 2023: 803; family status of Paraplectanoididae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae revalidated by Kuntner et al., 2025: 17, 23, but not accepted here for reasons of stability; Oarcinae (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimetidae 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); Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 241 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 consider Zygiellidae as the valid name instead of Phonognathidae and accept the family status of Nephilidae; the status of the Nephilinae and Phonognathinae (= Zygiellidae) as subfamilies is accepted by majority vote of the WSC boards; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list ten subfamilies and tribes as valid (besides Nephilidae and Zygiellidae): Araneinae, Argiopinae Simon, 1890a: 81 (sub Argiopidae), Cyrtarachninae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtarachneae), Сyrtophorinae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtophoreae), Gasteracanthinae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871e: 217 (sub Gasteracanthides), Micratheninae Simon, 1895a: 848 (sub Micratheneae), Guizygiellinae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 42, Caerostrini Simon, 1895a: 831 (sub Cerostreae), Hypognathini Simon, 1895a: 871 (sub Hypognatheae) and Poltyini Simon, 1895a: 888 (sub Poltyeae).
In synonymy:
Anetes Menge, 1850 = Agalenatea Archer, 1951 (Bonnet, 1955: 325, sub Araneus, by synonymy of the type species; the genus name Anetes was supressed by Simon, 1895a: 952)
Transferred to other genera:
Agalenatea angulopicta (Schenkel, 1953) -- see Alenatea
Agalenatea arcopicta (Schenkel, 1953) -- see Alenatea
Agalenatea davidi (Schenkel, 1963) -- see Alenatea
Agalenatea fuscocolorata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Alenatea
In synonymy:
Agalenatea aldrovandi (Scopoli, 1763, T from Aranea) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Simon, 1874a: 90, sub Epeira)
Agalenatea biocellata (Canestrini, 1868, T from Epeira) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Simon, 1929: 761, sub Araneus)
Agalenatea coeletron (Menge, 1850) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Bonnet, 1955: 326, sub Araneus)
Agalenatea cratera (Walckenaer, 1802, T from Aranea) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Thorell, 1870a: 18, sub Epeira sollers)
Agalenatea modesta (Simon, 1890, T from Neoscona) = Agalenatea liriope (L. Koch, 1875) (Grasshoff & van Harten, 2007: 155)
Agalenatea modestella (Strand, 1907) = Agalenatea liriope (L. Koch, 1875) (Roewer, 1942a: 811, sub Aranea)
Agalenatea myabora (Walckenaer, 1802) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Simon, 1929: 761, sub Araneus)
Agalenatea solers (Walckenaer, 1805) = Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) (Simon, 1874a: 90, sub Epeira)
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