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. Crosbyarachne Charitonov, 1937 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00913
type Crosbyarachne bukovskyi Charitonov, 1937; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Crosbyarachne korgei (Wunderlich, 1995, T from Tapinocyba) = Crosbyarachne bukovskyi Charitonov, 1937 (Gnelitsa, 2009a: 193)

Crosbyarachne bukovskyi Charitonov, 1937 | | Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Caucasus) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009996 TYPE SPECIES
Crosbyarachne bukovskyi Charitonov, 1937: 137, pl. 12, f. 5-8 (Dmf) Original description
Tapinocyba korgei Wunderlich, 1995t: 665, f. 63-69 (Dmf; f misidentified per Gnelitsa, 2009a: 193) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012832]
Crosbyarachne bukovskyi Gnelitsa, 2009a: 193, f. 2a-i (mf, Sm of Tapinocyba korgei)
Crosbyarachne silvestris (Georgescu, 1973) | | Austria, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012845
Tapinocyba silvestris Georgescu, 1973a: 132, f. 1-13 (Dmf) Original description
Tapinocyba silvestris Millidge, 1977: 15, f. 45 (m)
Tapinocyba silvestris Millidge, 1979: 322, f. 34, 39, 41 (m)
Crosbyarachne silvestris Tanasevitch, 2011b: 59 (T from Tapinocyba)
Crosbyarachne silvestris Komnenov, 2014: 60, f. 17-18 (f)
Crosbyarachne silvestris Komnenov et al., 2016: 27, f. 59-63 (f)

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