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Taxonomy
Araneus was named by Clerck (1757). It is extant. It is the type genus of Araneidae, Araneoidea.
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Pedestria by Scopoli (1763); to Unogata by Fabricius (1775); to Aptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768) and Müller (1776); and to Araneidae by Scudder (1878), Zhang et al. (1994), Dunlop et al. (2013) and Wheeler et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Pedestria by Scopoli (1763); to Unogata by Fabricius (1775); to Aptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768) and Müller (1776); and to Araneidae by Scudder (1878), Zhang et al. (1994), Dunlop et al. (2013) and Wheeler et al. (2017).
Species
A. absconditus, A. aethus, A. aquaticus, A. beipiaoensis, A. carbonaceus, A. cinefactus, A. defunctus, A. delitus, A. emertoni, A. exustus, A. fimbriatus, A. inelegans, A. kinchloeae (syn. Epeira indistincta), A. leptopoda, A. liaoxiensis, A. longimanus, A. luianus, A. meeki, A. molassicus, A. nanus, A. piceus, A. reheensis, A. ruidipedalis, A. troschelii, A. vulcanalis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1757 | Araneus Clerck |
| 1758 | Aranea Linnaeus p. 619 |
| 1761 | Aranea Linnaeus p. 485 |
| 1762 | Aranea Geoffroy p. 629 |
| 1763 | Aranea Scopoli p. 392 |
| 1764 | Aranea Müller p. 92 |
| 1766 | Aranea Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Aranea Linnaeus p. 1030 |
| 1768 | Aranea Strøm p. 362 |
| 1775 | Aranea Fabricius p. 431 |
| 1776 | Aranea Müller p. 192 |
| 1805 | Epeira Walckenaer |
| 1878 | Aranea Scudder |
| 1922 | Epeira Petrunkevitch p. 267 |
| 1994 | Araneus Zhang et al. p. 210 |
| 2013 | Araneus Dunlop et al. |
| 2017 | Araneus Wheeler et al. |
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G. Araneus Clerck 1757
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†Araneus absconditus Scudder 1890
†Araneus aethus Chang 2004
Araneus aquaticus Clerck 1757
†Araneus beipiaoensis Chang 2004
†Araneus carbonaceus Zhang et al. 1994
†Araneus cinefactus Scudder 1890
†Araneus defunctus Petrunkevitch 1958
†Araneus delitus Scudder 1890
†Araneus emertoni Scudder 1890
†Araneus exustus Petrunkevitch 1963
Araneus fimbriatus Clerck 1757
†Araneus inelegans Zhang et al. 1994
†Araneus kinchloeae Dunlop and Jekel 2009
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Invalid names: Epeira indistincta Petrunkevitch 1922 [replaced]
†Araneus leptopoda Zhang et al. 1994
†Araneus liaoxiensis Chang 2004
†Araneus longimanus Petrunkevitch 1922
†Araneus luianus Zhang et al. 1994
†Araneus meeki Scudder 1890
†Araneus molassicus Heer 1864
†Araneus nanus Wunderlich 1988
†Araneus piceus Lin et al. 1989
†Araneus reheensis Chang 2004
†Araneus ruidipedalis Zhang et al. 1994
†Araneus troschelii Bertkau 1878
†Araneus vulcanalis Scudder 1890
Invalid names: Epeira Walckenaer 1805 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available