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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).
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
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