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; Tian et al., 2022 show five subfamilies: Linyphiinae (incl. Mynogleninae Lehtinen, 1967: 250 and Dubiaraneinae Millidge, 1993c: 145), Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7, Micronetinae Hull, 1920a: 8, Ipainae Saaristo, 2007b: 34 and Stemonyphantinae Wunderlich, 1986: 120; da Silva-Moreira, Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2025: 60-62 list resp. newly circumscribe six subfamilies: Erigoninae, Lepthyphantinae Simon, 1929: 562, Linyphiinae (syn. nov.: Dubiaraneinae), Mynogleninae, Pocobletinae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2025: 61 (new subfamily) and Stemonyphantinae, state Ipainae and Micronetinae to be polyphyletic, leave several linyphiid clades unranked and also several genera as incertae sedis.

Gen. Abacoproeces Simon, 1884 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00812

type Erigone saltuum L. Koch, 1872; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Abacoproeces ascitus Kulczyński, 1894 -- see Metopobactrus

Abacoproeces topcui Türkeş, Karabulut, Demir & Seyyar, 2015 -- see Pelecopsis

In synonymy:

Abacoproeces brunneipes (Dahl, 1912, T from Metopobactrus) = Abacoproeces saltuum (L. Koch, 1872) (Thaler, 1976a: 230)

Abacoproeces saltuensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873, T from Erigone) = Abacoproeces saltuum (L. Koch, 1872) (Simon, 1884a: 653)

Abacoproeces molestus Thaler, 1973 | | Alps (Austria, Italy) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009308

Abacoproeces molestus Thaler, 1973a: 42, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description

Abacoproeces saltuum (L. Koch, 1872) | | Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009309 TYPE SPECIES

Erigone saltuum L. Koch, 1872b: 259 (Dm) Original description

Erigone saltuensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873a: 763, pl. 66, f. 20 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065929]

Abacoproeces saltuum Simon, 1884a: 653, f. 491-494 (mf, S of Erigone saltuensis)

Abacoproeces saltuum Simon, 1894a: 651, f. 621-622 (m)

Abacoproeces saltuum Bösenberg, 1902: 215, pl. 19, f. 304 (mf)

Metopobactrus brunneipes Dahl, 1912b: 605 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052906]

Abacoproeces saltuum Simon, 1926: 427, 510, f. 760 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Miller, 1944: 13, f. 4-6 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Miller, 1947: 26, pl. VI, f. 13 (f)

Abacoproeces saltuum Wiehle, 1960a: 99, f. 166-175 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Kritscher, 1970a: 205, f. 1-4 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Tystshenko, 1971: 252, f. 787, 796 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Miller, 1971: 258, pl. LII, f. 22, pl. LX, f. 24 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Waaler, 1971a: 19, f. 5 (f)

Abacoproeces saltuum Palmgren, 1976: 40, f. 8.20-24 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Thaler, 1976a: 230 (S of Metopobactrus brunneipes)

Abacoproeces saltuum Millidge, 1977: 19, f. 98, 100 (m)

Abacoproeces saltuum Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 110, f. 316 (mf)

Abacoproeces saltuum Frick, Nentwig & Kropf, 2010: 309, Suppl. pl. 1A-O (m)

Abacoproeces saltuum Van Keer & Jacobs, 2015: 13, f. 3a-d (m)