Genus Araneus Clerck, 1757

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• Araneus Clerck, C. 1757. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slågter indelte samt under några och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Stockholmiae. 154 pp.

  Type species:

   Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris Vol. 1 pp. 761-1084. [829].
• Aranea Linnaeus, 1758 [name suppressed for purposes of Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy].

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Araneidae: Alpaida navicula (L. Koch, 1871) [previously listed as Araneus navicula] — Framenau, V.W., Scharff, N. & Levi, H.W. 2009. Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia. Zootaxa 2073: 22-30 [25]

Araneidae: Eustala mucronatella (Roewer, 1942) [previously listed as Araneus mucronatellus] — Framenau, V.W., Scharff, N. & Levi, H.W. 2009. Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia. Zootaxa 2073: 22-30 [26]

Araneidae: Novaranea queribunda (Keyserling, 1887) [previously listed separately as Araneus quaesitus and Araneus queribundus (Keyserling); synonymised by Framenau et al. (2009)] — Framenau, V.W., Scharff, N. & Levi, H.W. 2009. Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia. Zootaxa 2073: 22-30 [28]

General References

ICZN 2009. Opinion 2224 (Case 3371). ARANEIDAE Clerck, 1758, Araneus Clerck, 1758 and Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Archnida, Araneae): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(2): 192-193 (type species of Araneus Clerck fixed, Aranea Linnaeus suppressed)

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