N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Araneus Clerck, 1757 and considered a senior synonym of Parepeira Mello-Leitão, 1933b: 41 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05287] (type Epeira albostriata Keyserling, 1865 = Alpaida leucogramma (White, 1841)) (contra Archer, 1951a: 42, who considered that name a junior synonym of Cercidia by transfer of type species), Subaraneus Caporiacco, 1948a: 661 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05289] (type Epeira veniliae Keyserling, 1865), Lariniacantha Archer, 1951a: 15 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05286] (type Epeira grayi Blackwall, 1863) and Subedricus Caporiacco, 1954: 84 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05290] (type Epeira nigropustulata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 = Alpaida truncata (Keyserling, 1865)) by Levi, 1976: 388, and of Pickardiana Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 192 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05288] (type Epeira truncata Keyserling, 1865) by Levi, 1988: 472 (by transfer of type species, contra Archer, 1951a: 20, who considered that name a junior synonym of Verrucosa).