World Spider Catalog

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; other subfamilies are Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7 and Mynogleninae Lehtinen, 1967: 250.

Gen. Laperousea Dalmas, 1917 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01051

In synonymy:

Laperousea arenaria Dalmas, 1917 = Laperousea blattifera Urquhart, 1887 (van Helsdingen, 1972: 372, sub L. cupidinea)

Laperousea cupidinea (Simon, 1908) = Laperousea blattifera Urquhart, 1887 (Millidge, 1988a: 45)

Laperousea occidentalis Dalmas, 1917 = Laperousea blattifera Urquhart, 1887 (van Helsdingen, 1972: 372, sub L. cupidinea)

Laperousea blattifera (Urquhart, 1887) | | Australia, New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011058

Linyphia blattifer Urquhart, 1887: 99, pl. 8, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description

Linyphia cupidinea Simon, 1908d: 417 (Dmf)

Laperousea arenaria Dalmas, 1917b: 432 (Dmf)

Laperousea occidentalis Dalmas, 1917b: 433 (Dmf)

Stylophora blattifera Bryant, 1933b: 18, pl. 1, f. 8, pl. 4, f. 34, pl. 5, f. 50 (mf)

Bathyphantes blattifera Parrott, 1946: 74 (T from Stylophora = Diplostyla)

Prolinyphia cupidinea Homann, 1952: 349 (T from Linyphia)

Laperousea blattifera van Helsdingen, 1972: 371 (T from Bathyphantes)

Laperousea cupidinea van Helsdingen, 1972: 372, f. 1-8 (mf, T from Prolinyphia = Neriene, S of Laperousea arenaria and of L. occidentalis)

Laperousea blattifera Millidge, 1988a: 45, f. 208-214 (mf, S)

Laperousea quindecimpunctata (Urquhart, 1893) | | Australia (Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011059

Linyphia quindecimpunctata Urquhart, 1893b: 105 (Df) Original description

Bathyphantes quindecimpunctata Hickman, 1967: 52, f. 90-93 (Tf from Linyphia, Dm)

Laperousea quindecimpunctata van Helsdingen, 1972: 371 (Tf from Bathyphantes)