Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843 - arthropods |
| subphylum | Chelicerata Heymons, 1901 |
| class | Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 - arachnids |
| subclass | Micrura |
| infraclass | Megoperculata |
| order | Araneae Clerck, 1757 - spiders |
| suborder | Araneomorphae |
| superfamily | Araneoidea |
| family | Araneidae Clerck, 1757 - Orb-weaver spider |
| subfamily | Nephilinae Simon, 1894 - golden orb weavers |
| genus | Nephilengys L. Koch, 1872 - hermit spiders |
Other sources
Nephilengys L. Koch, 1872 belongs to Araneidae Clerck, 1757 World Spider Catalog: World Spider Catalog [http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/], Natural History Museum BernData retrieved on: 3 August 2020