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. Denisiphantes Tu, Li & Rollard, 2005 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03658
type Lepthyphantes denisi Schenkel, 1963; gender masculine
Denisiphantes arcuatus Zhou, Irfan & Peng, 2021 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052901
Denisiphantes arcuatus Zhou, Irfan & Peng, 2021: 3, f. 1A-D, 2A-B, 3A-E, 4A-D (Dmf) Original description
Denisiphantes denisi (Schenkel, 1963) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011142 TYPE SPECIES
Lepthyphantes denisi Schenkel, 1963: 118, f. 70a-c (Df) Original description
Lepthyphantes denisi Zhu & Li, 1983b: 146, f. 3d-f (f, Dm)
Lepthyphantes denisi Hu, 2001: 503, f. 334.1-4 (mf)
Denisiphantes denisi Tu, Li & Rollard, 2005: 652, f. 11-25 (mf)
Denisiphantes denisi Tanasevitch, 2006b: 303, f. 76-77 (m)
Denisiphantes denisi Zhou, Irfan & Peng, 2021: 8, f. 5A-B, 6A-D, 7A-F (mf)

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