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. Mecynidis Simon, 1894 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01084

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiidae to the Linyphiidae by Levi, 1964a: 209.

Mecynidis antiqua Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011571

Mecynidis antiqua Jocqué & Scharff, 1986: 51, f. 157-168 (Dmf) Original description

Mecynidis ascia Scharff, 1990 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011572

Mecynidis ascia Scharff, 1990a: 52, f. 131-136 (Dm) Original description

Mecynidis bitumida Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011573

Mecynidis bitumida Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986: 449, f. 31-34 (Df) Original description

Mecynidis dentipalpis Simon, 1894 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011574

Mecynidis dentipalpis Simon, 1894a: 507, f. 511-512 (Dm) Original description

Mecynidis dentipalpis Levi & Levi, 1962: 65, f. 325-327 (m)

Mecynidis dentipalpis Levi, 1964a: 210, f. 1-6 (m)

Mecynidis laevitarsis Miller, 1970 | | Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011575

Mecynidis laevitarsis Miller, 1970: 81, pl. I, f. 1-4 (Dm) Original description

Mecynidis muthaiga Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011576

Mecynidis muthaiga Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986: 448, f. 26-30 (Df) Original description

Mecynidis muthaiga Scharff, 1989: 15, f. 13-22 (f, Dm)

Mecynidis scutata Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011577

Mecynidis scutata Jocqué & Scharff, 1986: 54, f. 169-178 (Dmf) Original description

Mecynidis scutata Scharff, 1990a: 55, f. 137-138 (m)

Mecynidis spiralis Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011578

Mecynidis spiralis Jocqué & Scharff, 1986: 56, f. 179-183 (Dm) Original description