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. Wixia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01577

Transferred to other genera:

Wixia acrosomoides Mello-Leitão, 1939 -- see Wagneriana

Wixia acuta (Keyserling, 1865) -- see Alpaida

Wixia akeholmi (Brignoli, 1983) -- see Tatepeira

Wixia albopunctata (Taczanowski, 1879) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia albotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1942 -- see Alpaida

Wixia bacillifera (Simon, 1896) -- see Pozonia

Wixia bicornuta Mello-Leitão, 1949 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia bituberosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia bryanti Archer, 1951 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia clivosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia consequa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia darlingtoni (Bryant, 1945) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia destricta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Parawixia

Wixia ectypa (Walckenaer, 1841) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia essequibensis (Hingston, 1932) -- see Eustala

Wixia fiebrigi (Dahl, 1906) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia fissifasciata Mello-Leitão, 1945 -- see Alpaida

Wixia gavensis Camargo, 1950 -- see Popperaneus

Wixia georgia Levi, 1976 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia gibbifera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia globosa F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia gnomo Mello-Leitão, 1943 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia grayi (Blackwall, 1863) -- see Alpaida

Wixia hentziana Archer, 1951 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia incerta Bryant, 1936 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia infelix Soares & Camargo, 1948 -- see Mecynogea

Wixia lurida Mello-Leitão, 1943 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia mastophoroides (Mello-Leitão, 1942) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia minuta Saito, 1939 -- see Pronous

Wixia nigropunctata Mello-Leitão, 1941 -- see Alpaida

Wixia nigroventris Bryant, 1936 -- see Pozonia

Wixia octospinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1949) -- see Wagneriana

Wixia pujalsi Archer, 1958 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia rostratula (Keyserling, 1892) -- see Alpaida

Wixia rubellula (Keyserling, 1892) -- see Alpaida

Wixia rufa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia serrallesi Bryant, 1947 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia sicula F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia spinigera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Alpaida

Wixia subrufa F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia tabula (Simon, 1895) -- see Alpaida

Wixia tatarendensis (Tullgren, 1905) -- see Tatepeira

Wixia tenella (L. Koch, 1871) -- see Acacesia

Wixia trigonellus (Caporiacco, 1954) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia trispinosa (Keyserling, 1892) -- see Alpaida

Wixia tumida (Keyserling, 1865) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia turrigera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia vaurieorum Archer, 1965 -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia venustula (Keyserling, 1879) -- see Ocrepeira

Wixia vulcani Kraus, 1955 -- see Ocrepeira

Nomen dubium:

Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 207 (f, Brazil) -- Levi, 1993b: 56

Wixia abdominalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 | | Brazil, Guyana, Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017148

Wixia abdominalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 438, pl. 31, f. 13 (Df) Original description

Araneus abdominalis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 276

Wixia abdominalis Levi, 1993b: 56, f. 1-6 (f, Dm)

Wixia abdominalis Levi, 2002: 551, f. 233-234 (m)