Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Metidae Simon, 1894 by Heimer & Nentwig, 1982: 292 and Levi, 1986a: 93 (although not by Wunderlich, 1986: 115); Metidae/Metinae is preoccupied in the Copepoda and emened to Metainae by ICZN, 2013 (Opinion 2326) following the proposal of Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011b; Diphyini is preoccupied in the Hydrozoa and emened to Diphyaini by ICZN, 2021 (Opinion 3774) following the proposal of Marusik, 2018d; see also the notes at the Araneidae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae; includes taxa placed by Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 in the "Nanometidae" (see Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 802); also Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318 and Pachygnathidae Menge, 1866: 94 are included; mentioning of "Tetragnathiens" by Simon, 1864: 325, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here.
Gen. Zhinu Kallal & Hormiga, 2018 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04451
Zhinu manmiaoyangi Kallal & Hormiga, 2018 | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050242
Zhinu manmiaoyangi Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a: 413, f. 4A-I, 5A-G (Dmf) Original description
Zhinu reticuloides (Yaginuma, 1958) | | Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013894
Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1958a: 26, f. 1-12 (Dmf) Original description
Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1960: 69, f. 65 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1971: 69, f. 65 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1986a: 124, f. 66.3 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Chikuni, 1989b: 89, f. 85 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Kim, Kim & Lee, 1999: 54, f. 9, 34, 56 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Namkung, 2002: 229, f. 18.16a-b (mf)
Meta reticuloides Namkung, 2003: 231, f. 18.16a-b (mf)
Meta reticuloides Tanikawa, 2007c: 97, f. 325-327, 780-781 (mf)
Metellina reticuloides Wunderlich, 2008a: 94 (T from Meta)
Meta reticuloides Tanikawa, 2009: 407, f. 17-18 (mf)
Meta reticuloides Kim & Lee, 2013: 46, f. 28A-C, pl. 14 (mf)
Zhinu reticuloides Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a: 414 (T from Meta/Metellina)

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