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:

Scotoneta Simon, 1910 = Lessertia Smith, 1908 (Wunderlich, 1995s: 645)

Gen. Lessertia Smith, 1908 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01056

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Scotoneta Simon, 1910a: 54 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05274] (type Tmeticus simplex F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892 = Lessertia dentichelis (Simon, 1884)) by Wunderlich, 1995s: 645 (after Millidge, 1977: 30, contra Brignoli, 1983c: 322).

In synonymy:

Lessertia barbara (Simon, 1910) = Lessertia barbara Simon, 1884 (Bosmans, 1985b: 64, sub Scotoneta)

Lessertia barbara (Simon, 1884) | | Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Italy (Sicily) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011342

Gongylidium barbarum Simon, 1884a: 500 (Dm) Original description

Scotoneta barbara Simon, 1910a: 54 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059138]

Stylothorax barbara Reimoser, 1919: 72 (T from Gongylidium)

Scotoneta barbara Fage, 1931: 149, f. 13 (mf)

Oedothorax barbarus Roewer, 1942a: 641 (T from Stylothorax)

Scotoneta barbara Denis, 1968d: 157, f. 32-36 (mf)

Scotoneta barbara Millidge, 1977: 30, f. 109 (m)

Scotoneta barbara Brignoli, 1978b: 107, f. 4 (f)

Scotoneta barbara Ribera, 1981b: 160, f. 3-4 (f)

Scotoneta barbara Bosmans, 1985b: 64 (T from Oedothorax, S of Scotoneta barbara Simon, 1910)

Lessertia barbara Wunderlich, 1995s: 645, f. 1-6 (mf, T from Scotoneta)

Lessertia barbara Bosmans, 2007: 131, f. 85-90 (mf)

Lessertia barbara Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2023: 70, f. 21a-h (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis (Simon, 1884) | | Canary Is., Madeira, Europe, Turkey. Introduced to Canada, New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011343

Tmeticus dentichelis Simon, 1884a: 390, f. 167-169 (Dmf) Original description

Tmeticus simplex F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892: 384, pl. 20, f. 5 (Dmf)

Tmeticus dentichelis Simon, 1894a: 683, f. 768 (m)

Tmeticus simplex Smith, 1901b: 139, p. 76: f. r (m)

Lessertia simplex Smith, 1908b: 328

Macrargus dentichelis Berland, 1911: 114, f. 6-7 (m)

Lessertia dentichelis Simon, 1926: 473, 531, f. 807 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Locket & Millidge, 1953: 300, f. 182A-C (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Wiehle, 1960a: 180, f. 314-321 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Merrett, 1963b: 444, f. 127A-B (m)

Lessertia dentichelis Miller, 1971: 278, pl. LXII, f. 1-3 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Brignoli, 1971d: 201, f. 111 (f)

Lessertia dentichelis Millidge, 1977: 30, f. 108 (m)

Lessertia dentichelis Ribera, 1981b: 158, f. 2 (f)

Lessertia dentichelis Millidge, 1984b: 252, f. 117 (f)

Lessertia dentichelis Roberts, 1987: 90, f. 40d (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Millidge, 1988a: 63, f. 312-315 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 202, f. 543 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Kronestedt, 1992a: 50, f. 3-4 (mf)

Lessertia dentichelis Millidge, 1993c: 147, f. 29 (f)

Lessertia dentichelis Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 56, f. 31.11 (m)

Lessertia dentichelis Lecigne, 2020: 57, pl. 4G (f)