World Spider Catalog

Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01204

type Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Turinyphia van Helsdingen, 1982 by Wunderlich, 1992a: 382, but that synonymy rejected by Wunderlich, 1995b: 413.

Transferred to other genera:

Plesiophantes simplex Tanasevitch, 1987 -- see Turinyphia

Plesiophantes globularis (Tanasevitch, 2011) | | Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043964

Megalepthyphantes globularis Tanasevitch, 2011b: 72, f. 77-81 (Df) Original description

Plesiophantes globularis Tanasevitch, 2025h: 724, f. 4A-D (f, T from Megalepthyphantes)

Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981 | | Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012374 TYPE SPECIES

Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981a: 197, f. 1-5 (Dm) Original description

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 1990: 96, f. 25.21 (m)

Plesiophantes joosti Karabulut & Türkeş, 2012: 90, f. 2H-M (m, Df)

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 2025h: 719, f. 1E-G, 2F (m)

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 | | Russia (Caucasus) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012376

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 1987a: 323, f. 38-40 (m; misidentified per Wunderlich, 2011: 296)

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich, in Tanasevitch, 1990: 96, f. 25.25 (m, nomen nudum)

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011: 296 (Dm) Original description

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Tanasevitch, 2025h: 721, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-G, 4E (m, Df)