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. Molestia Tu, Saaristo & Li, 2006 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03673

In synonymy:

Molestia minhenensis (Zhu & Li, 1983) = Molestia hamifer Simon, 1884 (Tao, Li & Zhu, 1995: 248, sub Lepthyphantes)

Molestia ancoraria Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057088

Molestia ancorarius Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 174, f. 202A-C, 203A-B (Df; refers to the adjective ancorarius) Original description

Molestia ancoraria Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2023: 18 (correction of ending of specific epithet)

Molestia caudata Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057089

Molestia caudatus Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 174, f. 204A-D, 205A-D, 206A-C, 207A-F (Dmf; refers to the adjective caudatus) Original description

Molestia caudata Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2023: 18 (correction of ending of specific epithet)

Molestia hamifer (Simon, 1884) | | France, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011171

Lepthyphantes hamifer Simon, 1884a: 285, f. 40-42 (Dmf; for the ending of the specific epithet see ICZN Article 31.2.2) Original description

Lepthyphantes hamifer Simon, 1929: 587, 732, f. 890-891 (mf)

Lepthyphantes minhenensis Zhu & Li, 1983b: 145, f. 3a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056272]

Lepthyphantes hamifer Zhu & Tu, 1986: 103, f. 20-23 (mf)

Lepthyphantes minhenensis Zhang, 1987: 113, f. 93.1-3 (f)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Tao, Li & Zhu, 1995: 248, f. 106-113 (mf, S of Lepthyphantes minhenensis)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 182, f. 102C-D, R (mf)

Lepthyphantes minhenensis Hu, 2001: 509, f. 336.4-5 (f)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 135, f. 72A-D (mf)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006: 16, f. 16 (f)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 130, f. 82A-D (mf)

Lepthyphantes hamifer Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 65, f. 40A-G (mf)

Molestia hamifer Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 175, f. 208A-D, 209A-B (mf, T from Lepthyphantes)

Molestia hamifera Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2023: 18 (correction of ending of specific epithet)

Molestia molesta (Tao, Li & Zhu, 1995) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011246

Lepthyphantes molestus Tao, Li & Zhu, 1995: 249, f. 131-135 (Df) Original description

Lepthyphantes molestus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 182, f. 103A-B (f)

Molestia molestus Tu, Saaristo & Li, 2006: 416, f. 37-40 (f, T from Lepthyphantes)

Molestia pollicaris Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058293

Molestia pollicaris Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023b: 28, f. 20A-D, 21A-B, 22A-E, 23A-B (Dmf) Original description

Molestia yaojiapingensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057090

Molestia yaojiapingensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 177, f. 210A-C, 211A-B (Df) Original description