N.B.: generic name validated by ICZN, 1959 (Direction 104); type species fixed by ICZN, 2009 (Opinion 2224), after application by Kluge, 2007; considered a senior synonym of Epeira Walckenaer, 1805: 53 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05534] (type Aranea diadema Linnaeus, 1758 = Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757, type presumably designated by Thorell, 1869: 53) by Simon, 1895a: 769; Burgessia McCook, 1894: 182 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06054] (no type designated) was described as a subgenus of Epeira and regarded as nomen nudum by Bonnet, 1956: 917, but as all five included species belong to Araneus  (one of them is the type species of Araneus), it is considered here as a junior synonym of Araneus; considered a senior synonym of Cathaistela Archer, 1958: 16 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05265] (type Epeira ventricosa L. Koch, 1878) by Yaginuma, 1959c: 28 (the spelling Catheisthela in Brignoli, 1983c: 250 is a lapsus); considered a senior synonym of Amamrotypus Archer, 1951a: 17 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05223] (type A. mammatus Archer, 1951), of Cambridgepeira Archer, 1951b: 2 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05264] (type Epeira detrimentosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889), Conaranea Archer, 1951b: 5 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05266] (type Epeira excelsa Banks, 1896 = A. bispinosus (Keyserling, 1885)) (considered instead a junior synonym of Atea), of Conepeira Archer, 1951b: 12 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05267] (type Epeira miniata Walckenaer, 1841) and of Neosconella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 474 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05268] (contra Archer, 1951a: 38) by Levi, 1973: 478; considered a senior synonym of Atea C. L. Koch, 1837b: 3 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04948] (type Epeira sturmi Hahn, 1831) by Archer, 1951c: 3 and by Levi, 1991a: 171, contra Grasshoff, 1976: 150; not a senior synonym of Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 (Levi, 1976: 388) or Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940g: 237 (type M. molinai Mello-Leitão, 1940 = M. cinaberina (Nicolet, 1849)) (Levi, 1991a: 177, contra Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1963: 107); Breitling, 2019b: 23 discusses Gibbaranea, Agalenatea and Epeira might be subgenera of Araneus, while Atea is possibly a valid genus; Breitling, 2021: 8 places the Araneus diadematus group in the genus Epeira, but without revalidating the genus Epeira.

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