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. 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)

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