Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae
Synonym: Epeira Walckenaer 1805
Full reference: C. Clerck. 1757. Araneae suecici, descriptionibus et figuris oeneis illustrati, ad genera subalterna redacti speciebus ultra LX determinati 1-154
Parent taxon: Araneidae according to W. C. Wheeler et al. 2017
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Fabricius 1775, Geoffroy 1762, Linnaeus 1758, Linnaeus 1761, Linnaeus 1767, Müller 1764, Müller 1776, Petrunkevitch 1922, Schaeffer 1766, Scopoli 1763, Scudder 1878, Strøm 1768 and Zhang et al. 1994
Sister taxa: Anepeira, Aranea, Araneinae, Argiope, Bararaneus, Chrysometata, Cyclososoma, Enacrosoma, Eoaraneus, Eochorizopes, Eozygiella, Eustaloides, Fossilaraneus, Gea, Hypognatha, Meditrina, Miraraneus, Mirometa, Molinaranea, Nephilinae, Pulchellaranea, Pycnosinga, Testudinaroides, Tethneus, Zilla
Subtaxa: Araneus absconditus Araneus aethus Araneus aquaticus Araneus beipiaoensis Araneus carbonaceus Araneus cinefactus Araneus defunctus Araneus delitus Araneus emertoni Araneus exustus Araneus fimbriatus Araneus inelegans Araneus kinchloeae Araneus leptopoda Araneus liaoxiensis Araneus longimanus Araneus luianus Araneus meeki Araneus molassicus Araneus nanus Araneus piceus Araneus reheensis Araneus ruidipedalis Araneus troschelii Araneus vulcanalis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (3 collections), the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (1), Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of China (2)
Total: 14 collections including 28 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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