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. Colaranea Court & Forster, 1988 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01460

In synonymy:

Colaranea discolora (Urquhart, 1887, T from Araneus) = Colaranea viriditas Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 77)

Colaranea flavomaculata (Urquhart, 1890, T from Araneus) = Colaranea viriditas Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 77)

Colaranea galbana (Urquhart, 1891, T from Araneus) = Colaranea viriditas Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 77)

Colaranea viriditas hastata (Urquhart, 1887, T from Araneus) = Colaranea verutum Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 78)

Colaranea viriditas lineola (Urquhart, 1887, T from Araneus) = Colaranea verutum Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 78)

Colaranea viriditas veruina (Urquhart, 1887, T from Araneus) = Colaranea verutum Urquhart, 1887 (Court & Forster, 1988: 78)

Colaranea brunnea Court & Forster, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015550

Colaranea brunnea Court & Forster, 1988: 81, f. 350, 430-434 (Dmf) Original description

Colaranea melanoviridis Court & Forster, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015551

Colaranea melanoviridis Court & Forster, 1988: 81, f. 349, 429, 435-436 (Dmf) Original description

Colaranea verutum (Urquhart, 1887) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015552

Epeira verutum Urquhart, 1887: 87, 89 (Dmf) Original description

Epeira verutum veruina Urquhart, 1887: 88 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060869]

Epeira verutum hastatum Urquhart, 1887: 89, pl. 8, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060867]

Epeira verutum lineola Urquhart, 1887: 89 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060868]

Araneus verutus Bryant, 1935c: 61, pl. 9, f. 10-11 (f)

Aranea viriditas hastata Roewer, 1942a: 835

Aranea viriditas lineola Roewer, 1942a: 835

Aranea viriditas veruina Roewer, 1942a: 835

Colaranea verutum Court & Forster, 1988: 78, f. 348, 417-426 (mf, T from Araneus, removed from S of Araneus viriditas, rejecting Dalmas, 1917a: 387, S of Araneus viriditas hastatus, A. viriditas lineolus and A. viriditas veruinus)

Colaranea viriditas (Urquhart, 1887) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015553

Epeira viriditas Urquhart, 1887: 85 (Df) Original description

Epeira discolora Urquhart, 1887: 86 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060864]

Epeira flavomaculata Urquhart, 1890c: 239 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060865]

Epeira galbana Urquhart, 1891a: 163 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060866]

Araneus viriditas Dalmas, 1917a: 387, f. 54 (f, S of Epeira verutum, revalidated by Court & Forster, 1988: 78, see Colaranea verutum)

Aranea viriditas Roewer, 1942a: 835 (S of Araneus venustulus Urquhart, revalidated by Court & Forster, 1988: 85, see Cryptaranea venustula)

Colaranea viriditas Court & Forster, 1988: 77, f. 347, 401-410 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus discolor, A. flavomaculatus and A. galbanus)

Colaranea viriditas Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 48, f. 25.1-3 (mf)