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. Caracladus Simon, 1884 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00878

Transferred to other genera:

Caracladus pauperulus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 -- see Erigone

Nomen dubium:

Caracladus crassipalpus (Menge, 1868: 208, pl. 41, f. 105A-M, mf, Poland, originally in Lophocarenum) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1549

Caracladus avicula (L. Koch, 1869) | | France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009689

Erigone avicula L. Koch, 1869: 178 (Dmf) Original description

Caracladus aviculus Simon, 1884a: 590, f. 408-409 (mf)

Caracladus aviculus Simon, 1894a: 658, f. 657 (m)

Caracladus avicula Lessert, 1907: 108, f. 7 (f, m is C. zamoniensis after Frick & Muff, 2009: 25)

Caracladus avicula Lessert, 1910b: 160, f. 100 (f, m is C. zamoniensis after Frick & Muff, 2009: 25)

Caracladus aviculus Simon, 1926: 387, 498, f. 690 (mf)

Caracladus avicula Thaler, 1969: 205, f. 15-21 (m)

Caracladus avicula Thaler, 1972a: 32, f. 7-11 (f)

Caracladus avicula Millidge, 1977: 40, f. 162 (m)

Caracladus avicula Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 124, f. 350 (mf)

Caracladus avicula Pesarini, 1996: 416, f. 9-10 (m)

Caracladus avicula Frick & Muff, 2009: 7, f. 1-28 (mf)

Caracladus daguanensis Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057515

Caracladus daguanensis Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023a: 83, f. 1A-D, 2A-C, 3A-D, 4A-C (Dmf, specific epithet corrected in Erratum, p. 575) Original description

Caracladus leberti (Roewer, 1942) | | Western, Central Europe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009690

Erigone kochii Lebert, 1877: 195 (Dm; preoccupied by O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873, see Walckenaeria kochi)

Plaesiocraerus kochi Simon, 1884a: 770, f. 675-678 (m, Df)

Diplocephalus kochi Lessert, 1910b: 152, f. 93 (mf)

Plaesiocraerus leberti Roewer, 1942a: 696 (replacement name) Original description

Caracladus leberti Thaler, 1973a: 45, f. 10-18 (mf, T from Plaesiocraerus = Diplocephalus)

Caracladus leberti Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 124, f. 351 (mf)

Caracladus leberti Frick & Muff, 2009: 13, f. 29-39 (mf)

Caracladus montanus Sha & Zhu, 1994 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009691

Caracladus montanus Sha & Zhu, 1994: 172, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Caracladus montanus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 160, f. 88M-O (mf)

Caracladus tsurusakii Saito, 1988 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009693

Caracladus tsurusakii Saito, 1988b: 21, f. 11-15 (Dmf) Original description

Caracladus tsurusakii Frick & Muff, 2009: 18, f. 40-46 (mf)

Caracladus tsurusakii Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 270, f. 144-150 (mf)

Caracladus zamoniensis Frick & Muff, 2009 | | France, Switzerland, Austria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042140

Caracladus avicula Lessert, 1907: 108, f. 5-6 (m, misidentified after Frick & Muff, 2009: 25)

Caracladus avicula Lessert, 1910b: 160, f. 98-99 (m, misidentified after Frick & Muff, 2009: 25)

Caracladus zamoniensis Frick & Muff, 2009: 20, f. 48-58 (Dmf) Original description