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. Troxochrota Kulczyński, 1894 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01325
type Troxochrota scabra Kulczyński, 1894; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Troxochrota kashmirica (Caporiacco, 1935) -- see Agyneta

In synonymy:

Troxochrota pectinata (Tullgren, 1955, T from Ceratinops) = Troxochrota scabra Kulczyński, 1894 (Lehtinen, Koponen & Saaristo, 1979: 45)

Troxochrota scabra Kulczyński, 1894 | | Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Scandinavia, Estonia, Russia (Europe) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013135 TYPE SPECIES
Troxochrota scabra Kulczyński in Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 125, pl. 4, f. 49, pl. 5, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description
Cnephalocotes pectinatus Tullgren, 1955: 311, f. 16a-f (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065024]
Ceratinops pectinata Kleemola, 1963: 36 (T from Cnephalocotes)
Ceratinops pectinata Palmgren, 1976: 46, f. 17.4-7 (mf)
Ceratinops pectinata Millidge, 1977: 15, f. 46 (m) ('seems to be a synonym of Troxochrota scabra')
Troxochrota scabra Lehtinen, Koponen & Saaristo, 1979: 45 (S of Ceratinops pectinatus)
Troxochrota scabra Höfer et al., 2019: 70, f. 18a-c (m)

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