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. Wiehlea Braun, 1959 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01352
type Wiehlea huetheri Braun, 1959; gender feminine; syn. of Wiehlea calcarifera (Simon, 1884)
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 TYPE SPECIES
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) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065107]
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)

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