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.

In synonymy:

Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962 = Caviphantes Oi, 1960 (Wunderlich, 1979b: 85)

Maxillodens Zhu & Zhou, 1992 = Caviphantes Oi, 1960 (Eskov & Marusik, 1994: 67)

Gen. Caviphantes Oi, 1960 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00885

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962: 165 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04830] (type L. dobrogica Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962) by Wunderlich, 1979b: 85 and of Maxillodens Zhu & Zhou, 1992: 2 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04829] (type M. flagellatus Zhu & Zhou, 1992) by Eskov & Marusik, 1994: 67.

Transferred to other genera:

Caviphantes glumaceus Gao, Fei & Zhu, 1992 -- see Bishopiana

Caviphantes catomidius Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057053

Caviphantes catomidius Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 54, f. 51A-D, 52A-E, 53A-C, 54A-F (Dmf; refers to the adjective catomidio, but this is no adjective) Original description

Caviphantes dobrogicus (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962) | | Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Kyrgyzstan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009702

Lessertiella dobrogica Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962: 166, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description

Caviphantes dobrogica Wunderlich, 1979b: 86, f. 10 (m)

Caviphantes dobrogicus Brignoli, 1983c: 329

Caviphantes dobrogica Tanasevitch, 1990: 103, f. 22.15, 24.34 (mf)

Caviphantes dobrogicus Turbanov, Nadolny & Turbanova, 2021: 180, f. 2A-B, 3A-C (f)

Caviphantes flagellatus (Zhu & Zhou, 1992) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009703

Maxillodens flagellatus Zhu & Zhou, 1992: 2, f. a-h (Dmf) Original description

Caviphantes flagellatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 160, f. 89C-D, I (mf)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Wunderlich, 1979 | | Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Russia (Kurile Is.), Japan, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009704

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Wunderlich, 1979b: 87, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Ono et al., 1991: 97, f. 23-24 (m)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Gao, Fei & Zhu, 1992: 8, f. 6-7 (f)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 160, f. 89E-F (f)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 292, f. 470-473 (mf)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Lee et al., 2018: 139, f. 1A-G (m)

Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 56, f. 55A-C, 56A-B (f)

Caviphantes samensis Oi, 1960 | | China, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009705

Caviphantes samensis Oi, 1960a: 179, f. 163-169 (Dmf) Original description

Caviphantes samensis Yaginuma, 1972e: 304, f. 36 (m)

Caviphantes samensis Wunderlich, 1979b: 86, f. 9 (m)

Caviphantes samensis Yaginuma, 1986a: 86, f. 46.10 (m)

Caviphantes samensis Ono et al., 1991: 97, f. 25 (m)

Caviphantes samensis Gao, Fei & Zhu, 1992: 8, f. 8-10 (f)

Caviphantes samensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 160, f. 89G-H (f)

Caviphantes samensis Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 292, f. 474-477 (mf)

Caviphantes samensis Ono, 2011b: 448, f. 39-45 (m)

Caviphantes samensis Suzuki, 2019b: 70, f. 1a-b (m)

Bathyphantes yodoensis Ohchi, 2022a: 174, f. 2 (m; N.B.: mislabelled only in the Latin letters, Japanese leads to Caviphantes samensis)

Caviphantes saxetorum (Hull, 1916) | | USA, Europe, Russia (Urals, South Siberia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009706

Diplocentria saxetorum Hull, 1916: 91 (Dmf) Original description

Diplocentria saxetorum Hull, 1931: 3, f. A1, 2 (Dmf)

Lessertiella saxetorum Cooke & Merrett, 1967: 323, f. 1-9, pl. I (Tmf from Diplocentria)

Lessertiella saxetorum Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 94, f. 57A-E (mf)

Lessertiella saxetorum Millidge, 1977: 25, f. 85 (m)

Caviphantes saxetorum Wunderlich, 1979b: 86, f. 8 (m)

Caviphantes saxetorum Millidge, 1984b: 237, f. 17, 32 (f)

Caviphantes saxetorum Roberts, 1987: 110, f. 54c (mf)

Caviphantes saxetorum Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 126, f. 354 (mf)

Caviphantes saxetorum Thaler, 1993: 642, f. 1-2 (f)

Caviphantes saxetorum Aakra, 2000c: 155, f. 1 (f)

Caviphantes saxetorum Růžička & Machač, 2013: 2, 3 unnumbered f. (mf)