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. Sauron Eskov, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01240

In synonymy:

Sauron fatrensis (Miller, 1966, T from Trichopterna) = Sauron rayi Simon, 1882 (Weiss & Marcu, 1979: 253, sub Metopobactrus)

Sauron fissocornis Eskov, 1995 | | Ukraine, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012505

Sauron fissocornis Eskov in Eskov & Marusik, 1995: 60, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description

Sauron rayi (Simon, 1882) | | Europe, Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011772

Erigone rayi Simon, 1882d: 245 (Dm) Original description

Metopobactrus rayi Simon, 1884a: 721, f. 591-592 (m)

Metopobactrus rayi Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 96, pl. 4, f. 6 (m, Df)

Metopobactrus rayi Simon, 1894a: 614, f. 660 (m)

Metopobactrus rayi Simon, 1926: 359, 489, f. 643 (m)

Trichopterna fatrensis Miller, 1966: 155, pl. III, f. 1-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058025]

Trichopterna fatrensis Miller & Zitnanská, 1976b: 313, pl. I, f. 1-6 (Dm)

Metopobactrus rayi Millidge, 1977: 25, f. 99 (m)

Metopobactrus rayi Miller in Weiss & Marcu, 1979: 253 (S of Trichopterna fatrensis)

Metopobactrus rayi Thaler, 1993: 644, f. 7-11 (mf)

Sauron rayi Marusik, Koponen & Danilov, 2001: 88 (T from Metopobactrus)

Sauron rayi Bosmans & Kekenbosch, 2007: 31, f. 1-3 (mf)

Sauron rayi Danışman, Coşar & Kunt, 2020: 19, f. 9A-F, 10A-C (mf)

Erigone rayi Frétey, 2023: 124 (year of description corrected)