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. Cryptaranea Court & Forster, 1988 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01463

In synonymy:

Cryptaranea munda (Urquhart, 1893, T from Araneus) = Cryptaranea venustula Urquhart, 1891 (Sirvid & Vink, 2000: 49)

Cryptaranea mundania inversa (Urquhart, 1893, T from Araneus) = Cryptaranea venustula Urquhart, 1891 (Sirvid & Vink, 2000: 49)

Cryptaranea mundania (Roewer, 1942, T from Araneus) = Cryptaranea venustula Urquhart, 1891 (Sirvid & Vink, 2000: 49)

Cryptaranea nigrohastula (Urquhart, 1891, T from Araneus) = Cryptaranea atrihastula Urquhart, 1891 (Court & Forster, 1988: 90)

Cryptaranea peronginia (Urquhart, 1894) = Cryptaranea subcompta Urquhart, 1887 (Bryant, 1933b: 25, sub Epeira)

Cryptaranea albolineata (Urquhart, 1893) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015556

Epeira albo-lineata Urquhart, 1893a: 178 (Df) Original description

Cryptaranea albolineata Court & Forster, 1988: 87, f. 358, 458-469 (Dm, f, T from Araneus)

Cryptaranea atrihastula (Urquhart, 1891) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015557

Epeira atri-hastula Urquhart, 1891a: 162, pl. 21, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Epeira nigro-hastula Urquhart, 1891a: 159, pl. 21, f. 13 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060858]

Cryptaranea atrihastula Court & Forster, 1988: 90, f. 357, 483-489 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus nigrohastulus)

Cryptaranea invisibilis (Urquhart, 1892) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015558

Epeira invisibilis Urquhart, 1892b: 239 (Dmf) Original description

Cryptaranea invisibilis Court & Forster, 1988: 83, f. 360, 437, 439-445 (mf, T from Araneus)

Cryptaranea stewartensis Court & Forster, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015559

Cryptaranea stewartensis Court & Forster, 1988: 89, f. 355, 478-482 (Dmf) Original description

Cryptaranea subalpina Court & Forster, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015560

Cryptaranea subalpina Court & Forster, 1988: 89, f. 354, 472-477 (Dmf) Original description

Cryptaranea subcompta (Urquhart, 1887) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015561

Epeira sub-compta Urquhart, 1887: 83, pl. 7, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Epeira peronginia Urquhart, 1894: 215 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060860]

Epeira sub-compta Bryant, 1933b: 25 (S of Epeira peronginia)

Cryptaranea subcompta Court & Forster, 1988: 94, f. 356, 492-497 (Dm, f, T from Araneus)

Cryptaranea venustula (Urquhart, 1891) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015562

Epeira venustula Urquhart, 1891a: 165, pl. 21, f. 12 (Df; preoccupied by Keyserling, 1879, see Ocrepeira venustula) Original description

Epeira munda Urquhart, 1893a: 177 (Df; preoccupied by C. L. Koch, 1835, see Larinioides patagiatus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015043]

Epeira munda inversa Urquhart, 1893a: 178 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015044]

Araneus venustulus Dalmas, 1917a: 386, f. 53 (f)

Aranea mundania Roewer, 1942a: 830 (replacement name for Epeira munda Urquhart) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060859]

Aranea mundania inversa Roewer, 1942a: 830

Cryptaranea venustula Court & Forster, 1988: 85, f. 362, 446-457, 471 (Dm, f, removed from S of Araneus viriditas, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 835)

Cryptaranea venustula Sirvid & Vink, 2000: 49 (S of Araneus mundus = mundanius and A. mundanius inversus)