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. Carepalxis L. Koch, 1872 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01452

Transferred to other genera:

Carepalxis bispinosa Mello-Leitão, 1945 -- see Ocrepeira

Carepalxis lichensis Rainbow, 1916 -- see Cyclosa

Carepalxis normalis Keyserling, 1892 -- see Scoloderus

Carepalxis poweri Rainbow, 1916 -- see Cyclosa

In synonymy:

Carepalxis eremita Archer, 1965 = Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 (Levi, 1992a: 259)

Carepalxis furcula Keyserling, 1886 = Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886 (Simon, 1896a: 347, omitted by Roewer))

Carepalxis gibbosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 = Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 (Levi, 1992a: 259)

Carepalxis rotunda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 = Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 (Levi, 1992a: 259)

Carepalxis vianai Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948 = Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895 (Levi, 1992a: 255)

Nomen dubium:

Carepalxis coronata (Rainbow, 1896b: 629, pl. 49, f. 1, j, Australia/New South Wales, originally in Epeira) -- Framenau, 2019: 17

Carepalxis beelzebub (van Hasselt, 1873) | | Australia (Victoria) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015486

Epeira beelzebub van Hasselt, 1873: 240, pl. 12, f. A-C (Df) Original description

Carepalxis beelzebub Rainbow, 1911: 197

Carepalxis bilobata Keyserling, 1886 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015487

Carepalxis bilobata Keyserling, 1886a: 118, pl. 9, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895 | | Paraguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015488

Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895g: 157 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis vianai Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948: 16, f. 22-25 (Df)

Carepalxis camelus Levi, 1992a: 255, f. 1-5 (f, S)

Carepalxis furcifera (Keyserling, 1886) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017100

Epeira furcifera Keyserling, 1886a: 144, pl. 12, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Verrucosa furcifera Archer, 1951a: 20 (Tm from Araneus, misplaced per Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015: 102)

Carepalxis furcifera Framenau, 2019: 6 (T from Verrucosa)

Carepalxis montifera L. Koch, 1872 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015491

Carepalxis montifera L. Koch, 1872a: 123, pl. 10, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis perpera (Petrunkevitch, 1911) | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015492

Epeira perplexa Banks, 1898b: 251, pl. 15, f. 1 (Df; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1841)

Araneus perperus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 309 (replacement name) Original description

Carepalxis perpera Levi, 1991a: 178 (Tf from Araneus)

Carepalxis perpera Levi, 1992a: 258, f. 6-10 (f)

Carepalxis quasimodo Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053669

Carepalxis quasimodo Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022: 391, f. 1-15 (Dmf) Original description

Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 | | Jamaica, Mexico to Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015494

Carepalxis gibbosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 48, pl. 4, f. 10 (Dj)

Carepalxis gibbosa Keyserling, 1892: 54, pl. 2, f. 43 (j)

Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895g: 157 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis rotunda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 224, pl. 27, f. 7 (Df)

Carepalxis eremita Archer, 1965b: 131, f. 2-3 (Df)

Carepalxis salobrensis Levi, 1992a: 259, f. 11-17 (f, S)

Carepalxis suberosa Thorell, 1881 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015495

Carepalxis suberosa Thorell, 1881: 48 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis topazio Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053670

Carepalxis topazio Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022: 394, f. 16-21 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis tricuspidata Chrysanthus, 1961 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015496

Carepalxis tricuspidata Chrysanthus, 1961b: 205, f. 50-53 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015497

Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886a: 119, pl. 9, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis furcula Keyserling, 1886a: 121, pl. 9, f. 6 (Dj)

Carepalxis tuberculata Simon, 1896a: 347 (Dm, S)

Carepalxis tuberculata Davies, 1988b: 300, f. 22 (f)