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; Tian et al., 2022 show five subfamilies: Linyphiinae (incl. Mynogleninae  Lehtinen, 1967: 250 and Dubiaraneinae Millidge, 1993c: 145), Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7, Micronetinae Hull, 1920a: 8, Ipainae Saaristo, 2007b: 34 and Stemonyphantinae Wunderlich, 1986: 120; da Silva-Moreira, Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2025: 60-62 list resp. newly circumscribe six subfamilies: Erigoninae, Lepthyphantinae Simon, 1929: 562, Linyphiinae (syn. nov.: Dubiaraneinae), Mynogleninae, Pocobletinae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2025: 61 (new subfamily) and Stemonyphantinae, state Ipainae and Micronetinae to be polyphyletic, leave several linyphiid clades unranked and also several genera as incertae sedis.

In synonymy:

Neovaldiviella Özdikmen, 2007 = Millidgella Kammerer, 2006 (, objective synonymy, see also Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 3)

Valdiviella Millidge, 1985 = Millidgella Kammerer, 2006 (Kammerer, 2006: 269, preoccupied, replacement name)

Valdiviola Miller, 2007 = Millidgella Kammerer, 2006 (, objective synonymy, see also Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 3)

Gen. Millidgella Kammerer, 2006 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03672
type Valdiviella trisetosa Millidge, 1985; gender feminine
N.B.: replacement name for Valdiviella Millidge, 1985: 61 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04809], preoccupied in Crustacea (Copepoda) by Steuer, 1904; objective senior synonym of Valdiviola Miller, 2007a: 49 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03587] and Neovaldiviella Özdikmen, 2007: 139 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03589], both are superfluous replacement names for Valdiviella.
Millidgella trisetosa (Millidge, 1985) | | Chile, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013213 TYPE SPECIES
Valdiviella trisetosa Millidge, 1985: 62, f. 245-253 (Dmf) Original description
Valdiviella trisetosa Miller & Hormiga, 2004: 414, f. 15D, 20A (mf)
Valdiviola trisetosa Miller, 2007a: 49, f. 23I, 29F-I, 35A-E, 36A-F, 37A-E, 38A-E (mf)

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