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. Sengletus Tanasevitch, 2008 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03852
type Sengletus longiscapus Tanasevitch, 2008; gender masculine; syn. of Sengletus extricatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

In synonymy:

Sengletus longiscapus Tanasevitch, 2008 = Sengletus extricatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) (Bosmans & Gavish-Regev, 2012: 100)

Sengletus extricatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) | | Egypt, Israel, Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009565 TYPE SPECIES
Linyphia extricata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 572, pl. 59, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description
Bathyphantes extricatus Simon, 1884a: 351
Sengletus longiscapus Tanasevitch, 2008b: 484, f. 33-45 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042000]
Sengletus extricatus Bosmans & Gavish-Regev, 2012: 100, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-B, 4A-D (mf, T from Bathyphantes, S of Sengletus longiscapus)
Sengletus latus Tanasevitch, 2009 | | Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042911
Sengletus latus Tanasevitch, 2009a: 409, f. 71-75 (Df) Original description

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