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. Wiehlea Braun, 1959 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01352

N.B.: considered valid by Millidge, 1984b: 241, contra Denis, 1962i: 14, who considered it a junior synonym of Gongylidiellum Simon, 1884.

In synonymy:

Wiehlea huetheri Braun, 1959 = Wiehlea calcarifera Simon, 1884 (Merrett, 1963a: 626)

Wiehlea calcarifera (Simon, 1884) | | Spain, France, Britain, Belgium, Germany urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013412

Gongylidiellum calcariferum Simon, 1884a: 606, f. 424 (Dm) Original description

Gongylidiellum calcariferum Locket & Millidge, 1957: 484, f. 4B-E (m)

Wiehlea huetheri Braun, 1959: 101, f. 1-8 (Df)

Wiehlea calcarifera Merrett, 1963a: 626, f. 1-5 (mf, T from Gongylidiellum, S of Wiehlea huetheri)

Wiehlea calcarifera Wiehle, 1965a: 24, f. 28-31 (mf)

Wiehlea calcarifera Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 96, f. 58A-E (mf)

Wiehlea calcarifera Millidge, 1977: 13, f. 39 (m)

Wiehlea calcarifera Millidge, 1984b: 244, f. 63 (f)

Wiehlea calcarifera Roberts, 1987: 110, f. 54a (mf)

Wiehlea calcarifera Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 276, f. 730 (mf)

Wiehlea calcarifera Barrientos, Uribarri & García-Sarrión, 2014: 5, f. 3 (m)