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. Bathylinyphia Eskov, 1992 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00858
type Bathyphantes major Kulczyński, 1885; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Bathylinyphia japonica (Oi, 1979, T from Bathyphantes) = Bathylinyphia maior (Kulczyński, 1885) (Eskov, 1992a: 53, sub Neriene)

Bathylinyphia maior (Kulczyński, 1885) | | Russia (West Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009547 TYPE SPECIES
Bathyphantes maior Kulczyński, 1885: 30, pl. 9, f. 11 (Dmf) Original description
Bathyphantes japonica Oi, 1979: 331, f. 13-15 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058768]
Bathyphantes maior Heimer, 1981b: 204, f. 1-2 (mf)
Bathyphantes japonicus Chikuni, 1989b: 47, f. 7 (mf)
Neriene major Eskov, 1992a: 53 (T from Bathyphantes, S of Bathyphantes japonicus)
Bathylinyphia major Eskov, 1992b: 164 (T from Neriene)
Bathylinyphia major Kim & Kim, 2000b: 7, f. 1A-G (mf)
Bathylinyphia maior Marusik, Koponen & Danilov, 2001: 84, f. 5-17 (mf)
Bathylinyphia major Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 337, f. 1169-1173 (mf)

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