N.B.: type species fixed by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 466; listed by Roewer as a synonym of Araneus Clerck, 1757, but accepted by all recent authors; considered a senior synonym of Chinestela Chamberlin, 1924a: 20 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05291] (type C. gisti Chamberlin, 1924 = Neoscona scylla (Karsch, 1879)) by Archer, 1958: 17, of Cubanella Franganillo, 1926a: 54 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05292] (type C. nidicola Franganillo, 1926 = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863)) by Franganillo, 1936c: 76 (by transfer of the type species), of Afraranea Archer, 1951a: 21 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05215] (type Araneus sanguipes Thorell, 1899; but based on a misidentification by Archer of N. penicillipes) but not of Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (contra Berman & Levi, 1971: 469) by Grasshoff, 1986: 4.