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.

In synonymy:

Phaulothrix Bertkau, 1885 = Leptothrix Menge, 1869 (Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 125)

Gen. Leptothrix Menge, 1869 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01055

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Phaulothrix Bertkau, in Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 227 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05211] (type Walckenaera hardyi Blackwall, 1850) by Prószyński & Starega, 1971: 125 (through transfer of the type species); those names are not senior synonyms of Hilaira Simon, 1884 (Merrett, Locket & Millidge, 1985: 397, contra Millidge, 1977: 8); Phaulothrix was given as replacement name, but the name is only valid outside of Animalia in Proteobacteria by Kützing, 1843.

Transferred to other genera:

Leptothrix intercepta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) -- see Oreoneta

Leptothrix pargongensis (Paik, 1965) -- see Strandella

In synonymy:

Leptothrix clavipes Menge, 1869 = Leptothrix hardyi Blackwall, 1850 (Thorell, 1873: 449, sub Erigone)

Leptothrix hardyi (Blackwall, 1850) | | Europe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011341

Walckenaera hardii Blackwall, 1850: 340 (Dm; patronym for Hardy) Original description

Walckenaera hardii Blackwall, 1864a: 292, pl. 20, f. 206 (m)

Leptothrix clavipes Menge, 1869: 240, pl. 47, f. 140 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058155]

Erigone hardii Thorell, 1873: 449 (S of Leptothrix clavipes)

Leptothrix hardii Bertkau, 1880b: 308

Phaulothrix hardii Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 215, 227

Tmeticus hardi Simon, 1884a: 383, f. 156-157 (mf)

Tmeticus carpenteri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895b: 108, f. 2 (f; misidentified)

Tmeticus hardii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 59, f. 12

Phaulothrix hardii Bösenberg, 1902: 167, pl. 15, f. 226 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardi Simon, 1926: 420, 510, f. 741 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Locket & Millidge, 1953: 321, f. 192F, 194D-F (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Wiehle, 1956: 24, f. 24-31 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Brændegaard, 1958: 71, f. 67-69 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Merrett, 1963b: 412, f. 87A-C (m)

Phaulothrix hardyi Tystshenko, 1971: 212, f. 648 (f)

Phaulothrix hardyi Miller, 1971: 243, pl. XLVIII, f. 18-20 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Bahrim, 1971: 171, f. 1-2 (f)

Phaulothrix hardyi Palmgren, 1975: 89, f. 22.11-14 (mf)

Phaulothrix hardyi Millidge, 1977: 8, f. 18 (m)

Leptothrix hardyi Roberts, 1987: 104, f. 50c-d (mf)

Leptothrix hardyi Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 176, f. 475 (mf)

Leptothrix hardyi Agnarsson, 1996: 124, f. 132A-C (mf)