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. Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01538

N.B.: Archer, 1951a: 21 implicitly synonymized this genus by transferring its type species to Eriophora Simon, 1864, but this change was not adopted by Grasshoff, 1968.

In synonymy:

Pararaneus asbenicus (Denis, 1955, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 92)

Pararaneus confusionis (Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus crassicaudex (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus perforatus Thorell, 1899 (Grasshoff, 1968: 89)

Pararaneus darolicola (Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898 (Grasshoff, 1968: 86)

Pararaneus hoplophallus (Pocock, 1899, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898 (Grasshoff, 1968: 86)

Pararaneus lunulifera (Reimoser, 1938, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Levy, 1998a: 344)

Pararaneus manicola (Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus paracymbifer (Strand, 1906) = Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898 (Grasshoff, 1968: 86)

Pararaneus sanguipes (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898 (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Pararaneus streptoceros (Pocock, 1898) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus striatellus Roewer, 1942 = Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898 (Grasshoff, 1968: 86)

Pararaneus striatellus intermedius (Pavesi, 1897) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus striatellus similis (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus suedicola (Simon, 1890, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 91)

Pararaneus suedicola pardalis (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus spectator Karsch, 1885 (Grasshoff, 1968: 92)

Pararaneus tyloscapus (Pocock, 1900, T from Araneus) = Pararaneus perforatus Thorell, 1899 (Grasshoff, 1968: 89)

Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898) | | Central, East, Southern Africa, Yemen (Socotra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016883

Epeira striata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 43, pl. 2, f. 24-25 (Dmf; preoccupied by Doleschall, 1857, see Argiope aemula)

Araneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898c: 206, pl. 8, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Aranea sanguipes Thorell, 1899: 48 (Df)

Araneus hoplophallus Pocock, 1899c: 40 (Dm)

Aranea darolicola Strand, 1906b: 623 (Dm)

Aranea paracymbifera Strand, 1906b: 624 (Dmf)

Aranea striata Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 109 (f)

Araneus striatus Lessert, 1930: 639, f. 15-16 (mf)

Araneus sanguipes Lessert, 1930: 645, f. 20 (Dm, f, S of Araneus haematocnemis; rejected by Grasshoff, 1986: 78, see Neoscona penicillipes)

Pararaneus striatus Caporiacco, 1940b: 299

Pararaneus paracymbifer Caporiacco, 1941b: 74 (T from Araneus)

Pararaneus striatellus Roewer, 1942a: 869 (replacement name for Epeira striata Bösenberg & Lenz)

Pararaneus cyrtoscalus Caporiacco, 1947c: 160 (T from Araneus)

Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Grasshoff, 1968: 86, f. 48, 52-54, 60b, 63a-f, 67-73, 82 (mf, S)

Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Grasshoff, 1986: 78 (S)

Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 31, p. 31: 7 f., p. 32: 6 f. (mf)

Pararaneus perforatus (Thorell, 1899) | | Central, East, Southern Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016884

Aranea perforata Thorell, 1899: 46 (Dm) Original description

Aranea crassicaudex Thorell, 1899: 44 (Df)

Araneus tyloscapus Pocock, 1900g: 851, pl. 55, f. 3 (Df)

Pararaneus perforatus Grasshoff, 1968: 89, f. 47, 49-51, 60a, 62a-g, 67-73, 82-84 (Tm from Araneus, Sf)

Pararaneus perforatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 33, p. 30: 1 f., p. 33: 5 f. (f)

Pararaneus pseudostriatus (Strand, 1908) | | Central, East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016885

Aranea striata pseudostriata Strand, 1908g: 380 (Dj) Original description

Aranea striatus pseudostriata Caporiacco, 1940c: 826 (Df)

Pararaneus pseudostriatus Grasshoff, 1968: 93, f. 58-59, 60d, 65a-d, 74-82 (elevated f from subspecies, Dm)

Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885) | | Africa, Middle East urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016886

Epeira spectator Karsch, 1885: 134, f. 3-4 (Df) Original description

Epeira suedicola Simon, 1890a: 103 (Df)

Epeira similis Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 44, pl. 2, f. 26 (Df, preoccupied)

Epeira striata similis Pavesi, 1897b: 164

Epeira striata intermedia Pavesi, 1897b: 164 (Dmf)

Araneus streptoceros Pocock, 1898e: 436, pl. 13, f. 2 (Dmf)

Aranea confusionis Strand, 1906b: 619 (Df)

Aranea manicola Strand, 1906b: 623 (Dm)

Araneus suedicola pardalis Simon, 1907e: 6 (Df)

Aranea streptocera Strand, 1908g: 379

Aranea randiae Strand, 1917c: 71 (replacement name for E. similis)

Aranea lunulifera Reimoser, 1937b: 20, f. 2 (Df)

Pararaneus striatus substriatus Caporiacco, 1940b: 299

Araneus striatus intermedius Caporiacco, 1940c: 826

Pararaneus striatellus intermedius Roewer, 1942a: 870

Pararaneus streptoceros Caporiacco, 1949a: 411, f. 53 (Tmf from Araneus)

Araneus asbenicus Denis, 1955b: 134, f. 40 (Df)

Pararaneus spectator Grasshoff, 1968: 91, f. 55-57, 60c, 64a-d, 74-82 (Tf from Araneus, Sf)

Pararaneus spectator Levy, 1998a: 342, f. 127-134 (mf, S)

Pararaneus spectator Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 34, p. 30: 1 f., p. 34: 7 f. (f habitus)

Pararaneus uncivulva (Strand, 1907) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016887

Aranea uncivulva Strand, 1907a: 535 (Df) Original description

Aranea uncivulva Strand, 1907n: 634 (Df)

Aranea uncivulva Strand, 1908f: 469, f. K (f)

Pararaneus uncivulva Grasshoff, 1968: 94, f. 66a-d, 74-82 (Tf from Araneus)