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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; Nephilinae and Phonognathinae downgraded to subfamily and Paraplectanoididae considered a synonym of Araneidae by Hormiga et al., 2023: 803; family status of Paraplectanoididae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae revalidated by Kuntner et al., 2025: 17, 23, but not accepted here for reasons of stability; Oarcinae (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimetidae 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); Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 241 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 consider Zygiellidae as the valid name instead of Phonognathidae and accept the family status of Nephilidae; the status of the Nephilinae and Phonognathinae (= Zygiellidae) as subfamilies is accepted by majority vote of the WSC boards; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list ten subfamilies and tribes as valid (besides Nephilidae and Zygiellidae): Araneinae, Argiopinae Simon, 1890a: 81 (sub Argiopidae), Cyrtarachninae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtarachneae), Сyrtophorinae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtophoreae), Gasteracanthinae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871e: 217 (sub Gasteracanthides), Micratheninae Simon, 1895a: 848 (sub Micratheneae), Guizygiellinae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 42, Caerostrini Simon, 1895a: 831 (sub Cerostreae), Hypognathini Simon, 1895a: 871 (sub Hypognatheae) and Poltyini Simon, 1895a: 888 (sub Poltyeae).
In synonymy:
Anawixia Chamberlin, 1916 = Wagneriana F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 (Levi, 1991b: 370)
Wagneria McCook, 1894 = Wagneriana F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 497, preoccupied, replacement name)
Transferred to other genera:
Wagneriana bufo (Denis, 1941) -- see Araneus
Wagneriana carimagua Levi, 1991 -- see Parawixia
Wagneriana eupalaestra (Mello-Leitão, 1943) -- see Paraverrucosa
Wagneriana gavensis (Camargo, 1950) -- see Popperaneus
Wagneriana heteracantha (Mello-Leitão, 1943) -- see Paraverrucosa
Wagneriana iguape Levi, 1991 -- see Popperaneus
Wagneriana longicauda (Mello-Leitão, 1947) -- see Paraverrucosa
Wagneriana minutissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 -- see Kaira
Wagneriana monticola (Keyserling, 1892) -- see Parawixia
Wagneriana neglecta (Mello-Leitão, 1939) -- see Paraverrucosa
Wagneriana tuberculicauda Caporiacco, 1947 -- see Paraverrucosa
Wagneriana turrigera Schenkel, 1953 -- see Alpaida
Wagneriana uropygialis (Mello-Leitão, 1944) -- see Alpaida
Wagneriana uzaga Levi, 1991 -- see Paraverrucosa
In synonymy:
Wagneriana armata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893, T from Turckheimia) = Wagneriana spicata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 499)
Wagneriana atopa (Chamberlin, 1916, T from Anawixia) = Wagneriana transitoria (C. L. Koch, 1839) (Levi, 1991b: 382)
Wagneriana bamba Levi, 1991 = Wagneriana jelskii (Taczanowski, 1873) (Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1096)
Wagneriana cacozela (Petrunkevitch, 1911, T from Araneus) = Wagneriana carinata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 (Roewer, 1942a: 880)
Wagneriana fina Alayón, 2011 = Wagneriana atuna Levi, 1991 (Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1093)
Wagneriana janeiro Levi, 1991 = Wagneriana dimastophora (Mello-Leitão, 1940) (Silva-Moreira et al., 2010: 20)
Wagneriana levii Pinto-da-Rocha & Buckup, 1995 = Wagneriana taim Levi, 1991 (Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1096)
Wagneriana octospinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1949, T from Paraverrucosa) = Wagneriana acrosomoides (Mello-Leitão, 1939) (Levi, 1991b: 404)
Wagneriana spinosa (Taczanowski, 1873, T from Epeira) = Wagneriana transitoria (C. L. Koch, 1839) (Simon, 1895a: 818, sub Acrosoma)
Wagneriana timida (Petrunkevitch, 1911, T from Araneus) = Wagneriana undecimtuberculata (Keyserling, 1865) (Levi, 1985a: 446)
Wagneriana tumida (Taczanowski, 1879, T from Araneus) = Wagneriana undecimtuberculata (Keyserling, 1865) (Levi, 1985a: 446)
Nomina dubia:
Wagneriana grandicornis Mello-Leitão, 1935a: 96, f. 6 (j, Brazil) -- Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1107
Wagneriana vermiculata Mello-Leitão, 1949: 10, f. 10 (f, Brazil) -- Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1102
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