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. Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01581

Transferred to other genera:

Zilla alpina Giebel, 1867 -- see Phylloneta

Zilla astridae (Strand, 1917) -- see Plebs

Zilla aurea (Saito, 1934) -- see Plebs

Zilla conica Yin, Wang & Zhang, 1987 -- see Eriophora

Zilla flavomaculata Yaginuma, 1955 -- see Plebs

Zilla plumiopedella Yin, Wang & Zhang, 1987 -- see Plebs

Zilla poecila Zhu & Wang, 1994 -- see Plebs

Zilla sachalinensis (Saito, 1934) -- see Plebs

Zilla spillmanni (Lessert, 1933) -- see Prasonica

Zilla tokachiana (Saito, 1934) -- see Plebs

In synonymy:

Zilla diodia embrikstrandi (Kolosváry, 1938) = Zilla diodia Walckenaer, 1802 (Breitling et al., 2016b: 62)

Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017161

Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996: 2, f. 6-9 (Df) Original description

Zilla crownia Yin et al., 1997d: 399, f. 289a-d (f)

Zilla crownia Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 310, f. 184Q-R, 185N (f)

Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) | | North Africa, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017162

Aranea diodia Walckenaer, 1802: 200 (Df) Original description

Epeira diodia Walckenaer, 1805: 60

Epeira obscura Wider, 1834: 265, pl. 18, f. 6 (Df)

Zilla albimacula C. L. Koch, 1834: 124, pl. 21-22 (D)

Zilla albimacula C. L. Koch, 1839a: 144, f. 534-535 (Dmf)

Epeira albimacula Blackwall, 1854b: 33

Epeira albimacula Blackwall, 1864a: 355, pl. 26, f. 256 (m)

Epeira diodia Thorell, 1873: 455 (S)

Epeira diodia Simon, 1874a: 114 (m)

Epeira diodia Becker, 1896: (2): 41, pl. 9, f. 3 (mf)

Epeira diodia Bösenberg, 1901: 40, pl. 3, f. 28 (mf)

Araneus diodius Lessert, 1910b: 332

Zilla diodia Simon, 1929: 667, 755, f. 1030 (mf)

Zilla diodia Wiehle, 1931: 117, f. 188-191 (mf)

Aranea diodia Kolosváry, 1938d: 583, f. 1a, c (f)

Aranea diodia embrik-strandi Kolosváry, 1938d: 583, 1b, d (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017163]

Aranea diodia Drensky, 1943: 246, f. 24 (mf)

Zilla diodia Locket & Millidge, 1953: 151, f. 101A-C (mf)

Aranea diodia Zamaraev, 1964: 358, f. 68-70 (mf)

Zilla diodia Miller, 1971: 214, pl. XL, f. 20-21 (mf)

Zilla diodia Loksa, 1972: 97, f. 88, 89A-B (mf)

Zilla diodia Roberts, 1985: 218, f. 98a (mf)

Zilla diodia Levy, 1987: 250, f. 34-43 (mf)

Zilla diodia Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 90, f. 204 (mf)

Zilla diodia Roberts, 1995: 326, f. (mf)

Zilla diodia Roberts, 1998: 339, f. (mf)

Zilla diodia Tanikawa, 2000a: 17, f. 2-3 (m)

Zilla diodia Almquist, 2005: 178, f. 183a-d (f)

Zilla diodia Breitling et al., 2016b: 62 (S of Zilla diodia embrikstrandi)

Zilla diodia Morano, 2023: 102, f. 116-118 (mf)

Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040055

Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004b: 246, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037697

Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001: 475, f. 314.1-3 (f) Original description