The Commission has confirmed the status of the family-group name araneidae (originally Aranei) with the authorship Clerck, 1758 for a family of spiders, designated Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1758 as the type species for the generic name Araneus Clerck, 1758, and conserved the generic name Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 by suppression of its senior objective synonym Aranea Linnaeus, 1758.
araneidae Clerck, 1758, Araneus Clerck, 1758 and Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Arachnida, Araneae): proposed conservation," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(2), 192-193, (1 June 2009). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v66i2.a9