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. Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01505

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Larinia Simon, 1874 by Levy, 1986: 5; not a senior synonym of Larinopa Grasshoff, 1970 (Framenau & Scharff, 2008: 242, contra Levy, 1986: 5); see note under Larinia.

Transferred to other genera:

Lipocrea delicata (Rainbow, 1920) -- see Larinia

Lipocrea tabida (L. Koch, 1872) -- see Larinia

Lipocrea vicina (Kulczyński, 1911) -- see Larinia

In synonymy:

Lipocrea fasciata (Thorell, 1899, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima Simon, 1881 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa)

Lipocrea lutescens (Thorell, 1898, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea fusiformis Thorell, 1877 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, sub Larinopa)

Lipocrea quadrinotata (Simon, 1889, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea fusiformis Thorell, 1877 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, sub Larinopa)

Lipocrea quinquepunctata (Tullgren, 1910, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima Simon, 1881 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa)

Lipocrea quinquepunctata concolor (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima Simon, 1881 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa)

Lipocrea tibelloides (Lessert, 1930, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima Simon, 1881 (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa)

Nomina dubia:

Lipocrea melanosticta (Thorell, 1891: 47, j, India/Nicobar Is., originally in Larinia) -- Grasshoff, 1970b: 217, 234, sub Larinopa

Lipocrea nigrolimbata (Simon, 1909e: 106, j, Vietnam, originally in Larinia) -- Grasshoff, 1970b: 217, 234, sub Larinopa

Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 | | Myanmar to Indonesia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016299

Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887: 146 (Dj) Original description

Larinia diluta Thorell, 1890b: 24 (Df)

Larinia diluta Thorell, 1898: 341 (Dm)

Larinopa diluta Grasshoff, 1970b: 233, f. 17a-c (mf, T from Larinia, S of Larinia delicata, rejected by Framenau & Scharff, 2008: 243)

Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | | Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016300

Argiope epeiroides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 301 (Dmf) Original description

Larinia epeiroides Simon, 1895a: 768

Larinia chloris Grasshoff, 1970b: 222 (S of Larinia epeiroides; rejected by Levy, 1986: 7)

Lipocrea epeiroides Levy, 1986: 7, f. 28-39 (mf, T from Larinia, removed from S of Larinia chloris, rejecting Grasshoff, 1970b: 222)

Lipocrea epeiroides Kunt et al., 2010: 71, f. 1-10 (m)

Lipocrea epeiroides Wunderlich, 2011: 11, f. 4-5 (mf)

Lipocrea epeiroides Keswani & Vankhede, 2013: 66, f. 1A-F, 2A-I (mf)

Lipocrea epeiroides Bosmans & Colombo, 2015: 323, f. 43-48 (mf)

Lipocrea epeiroides Dentici, 2017: 861, f. 1-4 (f)

Lipocrea epeiroides Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024: 21, f. 5a-b, 39c (m)

Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) | | India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016301

Meta fusiformis Thorell, 1877b: 431 (Df) Original description

Lipocrea fusiformis Thorell, 1878b: 6

Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1889i: 340 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057814]

Larinia lutescens Thorell, 1898: 342 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057813]

Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1909e: 105 (Df)

Larinopa fusiformis Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, f. 15a-b, 16a-e (Dm, f, T from Larinia, S of Larinia lutescens and L. quadrinotata)

Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 1989: 35, f. 8-14 (mf)

Larinia fusiformis Okuma et al., 1993: 23, f. 20C-D (f)

Larinia fusiformis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 612, f. 384a-e, 385a-b (mf)

Larinia fusiformis Chang & Tso, 2004: 28, f. 5-8 (mf)

Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2007c: 73, f. 202, 610-613 (mf)

Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2009: 447, f. 189-192 (mf)

Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023: 56, f. 15-18 (mf; see note at Lipocrea phosop)

Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) | | Central, East, Southern Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016302

Larinia longissima Simon, 1881e: 3 (Df) Original description

Larinia fasciata Thorell, 1899: 41 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057812]

Larinia quinquepunctata Tullgren, 1910: 162 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057815]

Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1930: 632, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057817]

Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1933: 113, f. 28-30 (Dm)

Larinia quinquepunctata concolor Caporiacco, 1947c: 163 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057816]

Larinopa longissima Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, f. 12a-b, 14a-f (mf, T from Larinia, S of Larinia fasciata, L. quinquepunctata, L. quinquepunctata concolor and L. tibelloides)

Lipocrea longissima Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 44, p. 43: 3 f., p. 44: 6 f. (f)

Lipocrea phosop (Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023) | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058500

Larinia phosop Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023: 55, f. 1-14 (Dmf; N.B. included here in Lipocrea, because of the stated affinity to L. fusiformis [the type species of Lipocrea], the validity of Lipocrea is doubted, but not revised) Original description