Full reference: M. Kuntner, C. A. Hamilton, R. C. Cheng, M. Gregorič, N. Lupše, T. Lokovšek, E. Moriarty Lemmon, A. R. Lemmon, I. Agnarsson, J. A. Coddington, and J. E. Bond. 2018. Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68:555-572
Parent taxon: Araneoidea according to M. Kuntner et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Anapidae, Baltsuccinidae, Burmascutidae, Cretamysmenidae, Cretaraneus, Cyatholipidae, Eocoddingtonia, Juraraneidae, Leviunguidae, Linyphiidae, Mesarania, Mesozygiella, Mimetidae, Mysmenidae, Nesticidae, Pimoidae, Praetheridiidae, Protheridiidae, Pumiliopimoidae, Synaphridae, Synotaxidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae, Theridiosomatidae, Zarqaraneidae
Subtaxa: Araneidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Madagascar (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of China (5), the Dominican Republic (5), Germany (1), Mexico (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (4), India (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of China (2), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 50 collections including 122 occurrences