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N.B.: the authorship of the family is corrected from Menge, 1866: 90 to Simon, 1864: 244 (sub Tetragnathiens) following the arguing by Marusik & Özkütük, 2026: 276, the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet, Platnick and in the WSC until 2026; considered a senior synonym of Metidae Simon, 1894a: 726 (sub Meteae) by Heimer & Nentwig, 1982: 292 and Levi, 1986a: 93 (although not by Wunderlich, 1986: 115); Metidae/Metinae is preoccupied in the Copepoda and emened to Metainae by ICZN, 2013 (Opinion 2326) following the proposal of Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011b; Diphyini is preoccupied in the Hydrozoa and emened to Diphyaini by ICZN, 2021 (Opinion 3774) following the proposal of Marusik, 2018d; see also the notes at the Araneidae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae; includes taxa placed by Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 in the "Nanometidae" (see Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 802); also Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318 and Pachygnathidae Menge, 1866: 94 are included; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list five subfamilies as valid: Diphyainae Simon, 1894a: 742 (sub Diphyeae), Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318, Metainae, Nanometinae Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 and Tetragnathinae.
Transferred to other genera:
Orsinome arborea (Urquhart, 1891) -- see Tawhai
Orsinome lagenifera (Urquhart, 1888) -- see Nanometa
Orsinome marmorea Pocock, 1901 -- see Tylorida
Orsinome sarasini Berland, 1924 -- see Nanometa
In synonymy:
Orsinome listeri Gravely, 1921 = Orsinome vethi (van Hasselt, 1882) (Caleb, Ghosh & Kumar, 2018: 344)
Orsinome nepula (Tikader, 1970, T from Labulla) = Orsinome vethi (van Hasselt, 1882) (Caleb, Ghosh & Kumar, 2018: 344)
Nomen dubium:
Orsinome vorkampiana Strand, 1907d: 730, Strand, 1907o: 39 (mf, Madagascar) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 26
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