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:

Linyphiella Banks, 1905 (removed from S of Linyphia Latreille, 1804) = Florinda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (Gertsch & Davis, 1946: 5)

Gen. Florinda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00978
type Florinda mirifica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896; gender feminine; syn. of Florinda coccinea (Hentz, 1850)
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Linyphiella Banks, 1905a: 311 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05269] (type Linyphia coccinea Hentz, 1850) by Gertsch & Davis, 1946: 5.

In synonymy:

Florinda humilis (Franganillo, 1926, T from Linyphia) = Florinda coccinea (Hentz, 1850) (Blauvelt, 1936: 149, sub Frontinella)

Florinda mirifica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 = Florinda coccinea (Hentz, 1850) (Gertsch & Davis, 1946: 5)

Florinda vicina (Franganillo, 1926, T from Linyphia) = Florinda coccinea (Hentz, 1850) (Blauvelt, 1936: 149, sub Frontinella)

Florinda coccinea (Hentz, 1850) | | USA, Mexico, Caribbean urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010610 TYPE SPECIES
Linyphia coccinea Hentz, 1850: 30, pl. 4, f. 8 (Df) Original description
Frontina coccinea Keyserling, 1886b: 100, pl. 14, f. 188 (f)
Florinda mirifica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 164, 224, pl. 21, f. 11 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064983]
Linyphia coccinea Emerton, 1902: 140, f. 330-331 (Dm, f)
Floronia coccinea Banks, 1903: 340
Linyphiella coccinea Banks, 1905a: 311
Neriene coccinea Comstock, 1912: 384, f. 397 (mf)
Linyphia humilis Franganillo, 1926a: 50 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064984]
Linyphia vicina Franganillo, 1926a: 51 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064985]
Linyphia humilis Franganillo, 1926c: 11, f. 2 (m)
Frontinella coccinea Blauvelt, 1936: 149, pl. 14, f. 96-100 (mf, S of Linyphia humilis and L. vicina)
Linyphiella coccinea Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 83 (T from Frontinella)
Florinda coccinea Gertsch & Davis, 1946: 5 (mf, T from Linyphiella, S of Florinda mirifica)

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