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. Monocephalus Smith, 1906 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01115

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Plaesiocraerus Simon, 1884 [= Diplocephalus Bertkau, 1883] by Denis, 1949a: 140.

Transferred to other genera:

Monocephalus parasiticus (Westring, 1851) -- see Thyreosthenius

In synonymy:

Monocephalus polliculatus Hull, 1950 = Monocephalus castaneipes Simon, 1884 (Brignoli, 1983c: 324)

Monocephalus castaneipes (Simon, 1884) | | Western, Northern, Central Europe, Italy urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011879

Plaesiocraerus castaneipes Simon, 1884a: 768, f. 671-674 (Dmf) Original description

Diplocephalus castaneipes Lessert, 1904: 317, pl. 5, f. 9-10 (mf)

Diplocephalus castaneipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1907: 91, pl. 27, f. 32-34

Diplocephalus castaneipes Schenkel, 1923: 89, pl. 7, f. 4-5 (mf)

Plaesiocraerus fuscipes castaneipes Simon, 1926: 379, 496

Monocephalus castaneipes Hull, 1933: 107 (T from Plaesiocraerus = Diplocephalus, elevated from subspecies of M. fuscipes)

Monocephalus castaneipes Denis, 1949a: 140

Monocephalus polliculatus Hull, 1950: 422 (name for mf identified as Diplocephalus castaneipes by O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058159]

Monocephalus castaneipes Locket & Millidge, 1953: 275, f. 166C-D, F, 167B, D (mf)

Monocephalus castaneipes Tullgren, 1955: 376, f. 77a-e (mf)

Monocephalus castaneipes Wiehle, 1960a: 593, f. 1103-1111 (mf)

Monocephalus castaneipes Millidge, 1977: 40, f. 161 (m)

Monocephalus castaneipes Millidge in Brignoli, 1983c: 324 (S of Monocephalus polliculatus)

Monocephalus castaneipes Roberts, 1987: 78, f. 33b, d, 38d (mf)

Monocephalus castaneipes Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 220, f. 591 (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes (Blackwall, 1836) | | Western, Central Europe, Italy urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011880

Walckenaera fuscipes Blackwall, 1836: 481 (Dm) Original description

Walckenaera fuscipes Blackwall, 1864a: 295, pl. 20, f. 209 (m)

Erigone fuscipes Thorell, 1873: 450

Walckenaera fuscipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879d: 154 (Df)

Plaesiocraerus fuscipes Simon, 1884a: 766, f. 667-670 (mf)

Tmeticus neglectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894c: 22, pl. 1, f. 3a-e (Df)

Diplocephalus fuscipes Smith, 1901a: 360, p. 359: f. 1o, 2i (m)

Monocephalus fuscipes Smith, 1906: 299

Diplocephalus fuscipes Lessert, 1910b: 151, f. 92 (mf)

Diplocephalus fuscipes Schenkel, 1923: 89, pl. 7, f. 3 (mf)

Plaesiocraerus fuscipes Simon, 1926: 379, 382, 496, f. 680 (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Denis, 1949a: 140 (Tmf from Plaesiocraerus=Diplocephalus)

Monocephalus fuscipes Locket & Millidge, 1953: 273, f. 166A-B, E, 167A, C (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Wiehle, 1960a: 589, f. 1095-1102 (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Merrett, 1963b: 397, f. 60A-C (m)

Monocephalus fuscipes Roberts, 1987: 78, f. 33a, c, 38c (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Coddington, 1990: 15, f. 73 (m)

Monocephalus fuscipes Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 220, f. 592 (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Bosmans, 2007: 134, f. 123-129 (mf)

Monocephalus fuscipes Frick, Nentwig & Kropf, 2010: 309, Suppl. pl. 15A-O (mf)