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.
Gen. Napometa Benoit, 1977 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01124
type Napometa sanctaehelenae Benoit, 1977; gender feminine
N.B.: transferred from the Tetragnathidae to the Linyphiidae by Hormiga, 1998: 125.
Napometa sanctaehelenae Benoit, 1977 | | St. Helena urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011924 TYPE SPECIES
Napometa sanctaehelenae Benoit, 1977k: 185, f. 76a-g (Dmf) Original description
Napometa sanctaehelenae Hormiga, 1998: 126, f. 1-13 (mf)
Napometa sanctaehelenae Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1239, f. 21A-F, 22A-B (mf)
Napometa trifididens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) | | St. Helena urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011925
Linyphia trifididens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 220 (Dmf) Original description
Enoplognatha trifididens Simon, 1894a: 578
Napometa trifididens Benoit, 1977k: 187, f. 77a-c (Tmf from Enoplognatha)
Napometa trifididens Hormiga, 1998: 127, f. 14-17 (m)
Napometa trifididens Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1241, f. 23A-H (m)

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