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.

In synonymy:

Conithorax Eskov, 1988 = Connithorax Eskov, 1993 (Marusik et al., 1993b: 74, preoccupied, replacement name)

Conothorax Eskov & Marusik, 1992 = Connithorax Eskov, 1993 (Marusik et al., 1993b: 74, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Connithorax Eskov, 1993 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00908
type Conithorax barbatus Eskov, 1988; gender masculine
N.B.: replacement name for Conothorax Eskov & Marusik, 1992b: 25 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04820], preoccupied in Hymenoptera by Karavaiev, 1935; Conothorax itself was a replacement name for Conithorax Eskov, 1988b: 680 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04819], preoccupied in Diptera by Brunetti, 1918.
Connithorax barbatus (Eskov, 1988) | | Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009983 TYPE SPECIES
Conithorax barbatus Eskov, 1988b: 680, f. 2.1-5 (Dmf) Original description

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