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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:
Cerceis Menge, 1866 = Cercidia Thorell, 1869 (Thorell, 1869: 37, preoccupied, replacement name)
Transferred to other genera:
Cercidia albostriata (Keyserling, 1865) -- see Alpaida
Cercidia funebris Keyserling, 1892 -- see Hypsosinga
Cercidia octomaculata Mello-Leitão, 1945 -- see Alpaida
Cercidia versicolor Keyserling, 1877 -- see Alpaida
In synonymy:
Cercidia bella (Meade, 1861, T from Epeira) = Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) (Thorell, 1870a: 30)
Cercidia carinata (Giebel, 1869, T from Miranda) = Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) (Lessert, 1910b: 339, sub Araneus)
Cercidia cribrata (Simon, 1895, T from Araneus) = Cercidia punctigera Simon, 1889 (Roewer, 1942a: 866)
Cercidia ochracea (Grube, 1861, T from Araneus) = Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) (Wesołowska, 1988b: 409)
Cercidia scutifera (Westring, 1861, T from Singa) = Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) (Thorell, 1870a: 30)
Cercidia spinosa (Ohlert, 1865, T from Atea) = Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) (Thorell, 1870a: 30)
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