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. Goneatara Bishop & Crosby, 1935 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00993
type Oedothorax platyrhinus Crosby & Bishop, 1927; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Goneatara georgiensis (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944, T from Sougambus) = Goneatara platyrhinus (Crosby & Bishop, 1927) (Draney, 1998: 248)

Goneatara eranistes (Crosby & Bishop, 1927) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010677
Oedothorax eranistes Crosby & Bishop, 1927: 148, pl. 15, f. 6-7 (Dm) Original description
Goneatara eranistes Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 260
Goneatara nasuta (Barrows, 1943) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010678
Souessa nasuta Barrows, 1943: 209, f. 1a-d (Dmf) Original description
Goneatara nasuta Ivie, 1967: 128 (T from Souessa)
Goneatara nasutus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 107, f. 1063-1066 (mf)
Goneatara platyrhinus (Crosby & Bishop, 1927) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010679 TYPE SPECIES
Oedothorax platyrhinus Crosby & Bishop, 1927: 147, pl. 15, f. 1-5 (Dmf) Original description
Goneatara platyrhinus Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 259
Sougambus georgiensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 78, f. 114 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064986]
Sougambus georgensis Brignoli, 1983c: 357
Goneatara platyrhinus Draney, 1998: 248 (S of Sougambus georgiensis)
Goneatara plausibilis Bishop & Crosby, 1935 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010680
Goneatara plausibilis Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 259, pl. 20, f. 48-51 (Dm) Original description

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