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. Decipiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00920
type Linyphia decipiens L. Koch, 1879; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Decipiphantes hambergi (Schenkel, 1931) = Decipiphantes decipiens (L. Koch, 1879) (Holm, 1945b: 57, sub Lepthyphantes)

Decipiphantes decipiens (L. Koch, 1879) | | Scandinavia, Belarus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010008 TYPE SPECIES
Linyphia decipiens L. Koch, 1879c: 33, pl. 1, f. 21 (Dm) Original description
Lepthyphantes hambergi Schenkel, 1931: 967, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060184]
Lepthyphantes decipiens Holm, 1945b: 57, f. 18a-b (mf, T from Linyphia, S of Lepthyphantes hambergi)
Linyphia decipiens Roewer, 1955c: 1542 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)
Lepthyphantes decipiens Palmgren, 1975: 62, f. 13.13-14 (mf)
Lepthyphantes decipiens Pakhorukov, 1981: 75, f. 12-15 (mf)
Lepthyphantes decipiens Wunderlich, 1995e: 489, f. 39 (f)
Decipiphantes decipiens Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b: 184, f. 16D (m, T from Lepthyphantes)
Decipiphantes decipiens Saaristo in Marusik & Koponen, 2008a: 10, pl. 3 (m)

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