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 (with the single genus
Paraplectanoides Keyserling, 1886); Nephilinae and Phonognathinae downgraded to subfamily and Paraplectanoididae considered a synonym of Araneidae by
Hormiga et al., 2023: 803; Oarcinae (
Gnolus and
Oarces) transferred from the Mimitidae 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).
In synonymy:
Novakia Court & Forster, 1988 = Novakiella
Court & Forster, 1993
(Platnick, 1993c: 457, preoccupied, replacement name)
