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. Sougambus Crosby & Bishop, 1936 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01274
type Tmeticus bostoniensis Emerton, 1882; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Sougambus georgiensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 -- see Goneatara

In synonymy:

Sougambus algidus (Hackman, 1954, T from Collinsia) = Sougambus bostoniensis (Emerton, 1882) (Aitchison-Benell & Dondale, 1990: 224)

Sougambus bostoniensis (Emerton, 1882) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012681 TYPE SPECIES
Tmeticus bostoniensis Emerton, 1882: 56, pl. 17, f. 1 (Dm) Original description
Gongylidium bostonense Simon, 1884a: 500
Erigone bostoniensis Marx, 1890a: 533
Oedothorax bostoniensis Crosby, 1905a: 310
Sougambus bostoniensis Crosby & Bishop, 1936b: 61, pl. 5, f. 24-27 (m, Df)
Sougambus bostoniensis Kaston, 1948: 208, f. 561 (m)
Hilaira algida Hackman, 1954: 25, f. 105-110 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058483]
Catabrithorax algida Eskov, 1981b: 1487 (T from Hilaira; but Catabrithorax was placed as a subgenus of Collinsia by Hackman, 1954; cf. Eskov, 1990c: 287)
Sougambus bostoniensis Aitchison-Benell & Dondale, 1990: 224 (S of Hilaira algida)
Sougambus bostoniensis Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 120, f. 1257-1259 (mf)

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