World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

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).

Gen. Spilasma Simon, 1897 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01561

N.B.: used as nomen nudum by Simon, 1895a: 794.

Transferred to other genera:

Spilasma africana Simon, 1903 -- see Prasonica

Spilasma tubulofaciens (Hingston, 1932) -- see Micrepeira

In synonymy:

Spilasma artifex Simon, 1897 = Spilasma duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879 (Levi, 1995b: 187)

Spilasma coccineum Caporiacco, 1955 = Spilasma duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879 (Levi, 1995b: 187)

Spilasma davisi (Hingston, 1932, T from Cyrtophora) = Spilasma duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879 (Levi, 1995b: 187)

Spilasma lamentaria (Keyserling, 1883, T from Araneus) = Spilasma duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879 (Levi, 1995b: 187)

Spilasma tredecimguttata Simon, 1897 = Spilasma duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879 (Levi, 1995b: 187)

Nomen nudum:

Spilasma richei Lopez, 1985: 87 (f, French Guiana) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057199] -- Levi, 1995b: 187

Spilasma baptistai Levi, 1995 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017067

Spilasma baptistai Levi, 1995b: 190, f. 156-159 (Df) Original description

Spilasma duodecimguttata (Keyserling, 1879) | | Honduras to Bolivia, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017068

Singa duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1879: 302, pl. 4, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Epeira lamentaria Keyserling, 1883a: 199, pl. 15, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058952]

Epeira lamentaria Keyserling, 1892: 174, pl. 8, f. 128 (f)

Singa duodecimguttata Keyserling, 1893: 286, pl. 14, f. 211 (f)

Spilasma 13-guttata Simon, 1895a: 789, f. 856, 857 (nomen nudum)

Spilasma artifex Simon, 1895a: 794 (nomen nudum)

Spilasma 13-guttata Simon, 1897b: 476 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058953]

Spilasma artifex Simon, 1897b: 477 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058949]

Araneus duodecimguttatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 290

Araneus lamentarius Petrunkevitch, 1911: 299

Epeira davisi Hingston, 1932: 365 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058951]

Spilasma coccineum Caporiacco, 1955: 344, f. 29a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058950]

Alpaida duodecimguttata Levi, 1972a: 231 (T from Singa)

Spilasma duodecimguttata Levi, 1995b: 187, f. 140-155 (mf, T from Alpaida, S of Araneus lamentarius, Cyrtophora davisi, Spilasma artifex, S. coccineum and S. tredecimguttata, C. davisi removed from S of Cyrtophora guianensis, rejecting Levi, 1991a: 179, see Manogea porracea)

Spilasma duodecimguttata Levi, 2002: 559, f. 301-302 (m)

Spilasma duodecimguttata Dierkens, 2012a: 30, f. 22-23, 32 (m)

Spilasma utaca Levi, 1995 | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017069

Spilasma utaca Levi, 1995b: 190, f. 160-161 (Dm) Original description