World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Nephilidae Simon, 1894

Family |   SYNONYM

N.B.: elevated to family level and relimited by Kuntner, 2006: 24, both actions regarded as dubious by Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009: 21 (see also Álvarez-Padilla et al., 2009), re-synonymized with Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244 (already assumed by Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix), elevated to family again by Kuntner et al., 2019: 563 (confirmed by Kuntner et al., 2023: 970 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52), downgraded to subfamily by Scharff et al., 2020, Kallal et al., 2020 and Hormiga et al., 2023: 803 (the status as subfamily of Araneidae was  accepted by majority vote of the WSC boards); family status revalidated by Kuntner et al., 2025: 23 (but not accepted here for reasons of stability).


LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0111

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0111

Last updated: 2025-06-17

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Taxonomic Reference
Original description Simon, 1894a: 744
Reference

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-12-08 Nota bene edited Old value
2024-12-20 Nota bene edited Old value
2024-02-08 Nota bene edited Old value
2024-02-08 Family updated Old value New status
2023-08-08 Nota bene edited Old value
2023-08-08 Family updated Old value New status
2023-07-31 Nota bene edited Old value
2017-05-08 Nota bene edited Old value
2017-05-08 Family updated Old value New status
2016-10-05 Nota bene edited Old value

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