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. Birgerius Saaristo, 1973 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00862
type Rhabdoria microps Simon, 1911; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Birgerius triangulus Tao, Li & Zhu, 1995 -- see Holminaria

Birgerius microps (Simon, 1911) | | France, Spain urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009611 TYPE SPECIES
Rhabdoria microps Simon, 1911a: 184 (Dm) Original description
Centromerus microps Simon, 1929: 547, 724, f. 816 (m)
Centromerus microps Fage, 1931: 168, f. 22 (Df)
Birgerius microps Saaristo, 1973a: 449, f. 1-7 (Tmf from Centromerus)
Birgerius microps Saaristo in Marusik & Koponen, 2008a: 11, pl. 4 (m)

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