World Spider Catalog

Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: for comments on relationships, see Michalik & Hormiga, 2010: 7; re-synonymization of Pimoidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; Sinopimoidae Li & Wunderlich, 2008 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0112] synonymyized with Linyphiidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 245; resurrection of Sinopimoidae by Wunderlich, 2020b: 20 is not accepted here, because Dimitrov et al., 2017 was not taken into account; re-elevation of Sinopimoidae to family level by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 343 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); the current status of Sinopimoidae is also maintained for reasons of stability and we wait for a probable confirmation or rejection of this resurrection; other subfamilies are Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7 and Mynogleninae Lehtinen, 1967: 250.

Gen. Agnyphantes Hull, 1933 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00821

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 by Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b: 175) but diagnostic information provided only by Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2000: 258-259; the synonymy with Poeciloneta Kulczyński, 1894, proposed by Breitling, 2019b: 29 and Breitling, 2021: 22, is not accepted here as it is based mainly on COI (see FAQ 7).

In synonymy:

Agnyphantes rubescens (Emerton, 1926) = Agnyphantes arboreus Emerton, 1915 (Buckle et al., 2001: 127, sub Lepthyphantes )

Agnyphantes arboreus (Emerton, 1915) | | Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009350

Bathyphantes arborea Emerton, 1915b: 151, pl. 2, f. 10-11 (Dmf) Original description

Lepthyphantes arborea Emerton, 1920: 318

Lepthyphantes rubescens Emerton, 1926: 117, f. 8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011288]

Lepthyphantes arborea Zorsch, 1937: 885, pl. 5, f. 64-66 (mf)

Agnyphantes arboreus Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b: 175 (T from Lepthyphantes)

Lepthyphantes arboreus Buckle et al., 2001: 127 (S of Lepthyphantes rubescens)

Agnyphantes expunctus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) | | Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009351

Linyphia lepida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873g: 539, pl. 15, f. 7 (Df; preoccupied)

Linyphia expuncta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875e: 251 (replacement name) Original description

Linyphia expuncta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881a: 512 (Dm)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Simon, 1884a: 329

Lepthyphantes lepidus Simon, 1884a: 329

Lephthyphantes lepidus Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 68, pl. 3, f. 1 (mf)

Lepthyphantes lepidus Bösenberg, 1901: 79, pl. 6, f. 88 (mf)

Bolyphantes expunctus Hull, 1909: 446, pl. 12, f. 10-15 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Simon, 1929: 583, 586, 731, f. 877-888 (mf)

Agnyphantes expunctus Hull, 1933: 106

Lepthyphantes expunctus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 394, f. 234D, 236B (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Wiehle, 1956: 185, f. 309-314 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Merrett, 1963b: 361, f. 14A-E (m)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Tystshenko, 1971: 222, f. 666, 687 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Miller, 1971: 224, pl. XLIII, f. 13-14 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Wanless, 1971: 24, f. 4F, 7G (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Wanless, 1973: 132, f. IV.2, V.4, IX.20 (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Palmgren, 1975: 58, f. 10.1-4 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Bosmans, 1978: 273, f. 71 (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Deeleman-Reinhold, 1978b: 181, f. 77 (m)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Millidge, 1984b: 248, f. 91 (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Zhou & Song, 1985b: 271, f. 1a-d (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Grabner & Thaler, 1986: 19, f. 3, 17

Lepthyphantes expunctus Roberts, 1987: 155, f. 81a (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Hu & Wu, 1989: 147, f. 119.1-4 (f)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 182, f. 498 (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Roberts, 1995: 362, f. (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Roberts, 1998: 373, f. (mf)

Lepthyphantes expunctus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 181, f. 101M (f)

Agnyphantes expunctus Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2000: 258, f. 3, 7 (Tmf from Lepthyphantes)

Agnyphantes expunctus Merrett, 2004b: 21, f. 8 (m)

Agnyphantes expunctus Dupérré, 2013: 7, f. 62 (m)