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. Scandichrestus Wunderlich, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01243
type Typhochrestus tenuis Holm, 1943; gender masculine
Scandichrestus tenuis (Holm, 1943) | | Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia (Europe to South Siberia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012528 TYPE SPECIES
Rhaebothorax pallidus Holm, 1939b: 30, f. 14a (Df, preoccupied in Typhochrestus by Emerton, 1882)
Typhochrestus pallidus Holm, 1943: 20, f. 6e-h, pl. II, f. 17-19 (Tf from Rhaebothorax=Mecynargus, Dm)
Typhochrestus tenuis Holm, 1943: 20, footnote (replacement name; as Simon's (1884: 589) transfer of Lophocarenum pallidum Emerton, 1882 to T. was not accepted by Emerton or other authors, the need for a new name could be questioned, per Brignoli, 1983c: 363) Original description
Typhocrestus tenuis Palmgren, 1976: 110, f. 23.18-20 (mf)
Scandichrestus tenuis Wunderlich, 1995s: 649, f. 26-29 (Tmf from Typhochrestus)

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