N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Moneta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870 (rejected by Okuma, 1994: 16), Episinopsis Simon, 1895g: 136 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05628] (type E. rhomboidalis Simon, 1895), Hyocrea Simon, 1895g: 146 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05629] (type H. implexa Simon, 1895), Penictis Simon, 1894a: 520 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05630] (type P. mucronatus Simon, 1894), Plocamis Simon, 1894a: 521 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05631] (type Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873), and Hyptimorpha Strand, 1906 (rejected by Okuma, 1994: 16 and moved to a synonym of Moneta; erroneously listed as a junior synonym of Argyrodes Simon, 1864 by Brignoli, 1983c: 382) by Levi & Levi, 1962: 20-27; not a senior synonym of Janula Strand, 1932 (Yoshida & Koh, 2011: 79, contra Levi, 1955b: 66); Episinus is polyphyletic after Rodrigues et al., 2022: 759.

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