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. Acanoides Sun, Marusik & Tu, 2014 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04134
type Acanoides beijingensis Sun, Marusik & Tu, 2014; gender masculine
Acanoides beijingensis Sun, Marusik & Tu, 2014 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046710 TYPE SPECIES
Acanoides beijingensis Sun, Marusik & Tu, 2014: 83, f. 1A-C, 2A-H, 4A-H (Dmf) Original description
Acanoides beijingensis Wang et al., 2015c: 142, f. 2g (f)
Acanoides cornutus Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063542
Acanoides cornutus Irfan, Zhang & Peng in Irfan et al., 2025a: 7, f. 2A-D, 3A-B (Df) Original description
Acanoides cultellifer (Schenkel, 1936) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011141
Lepthyphantes cultellifer Schenkel, 1936b: 62, f. 20 (Dm) Original description
Lepthyphantes cultellifer Tanasevitch, 1989a: 171, f. 223 (m)
Lepthyphantes cultellifer Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 181, f. 101Q (m)
Lepthyphantes cultellifer Han, Dong & Zhang, 2015: 45, f. 1-12 (m, Df)
Lepthyphantes cultellifer Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 61, f. 39A-G (mf)
Acanoides cultellifer Irfan et al., 2025a: 7 (T from Lepthyphantes)
Acanoides hengshanensis (Chen & Yin, 2000) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037052
Lepthyphantes hengshanensis Chen & Yin, 2000: 87, f. 12-16 (Dm) Original description
Acanthoneta hengshanensis Tu, Saaristo & Li, 2006: 412, f. 24-27 (m, T from Lepthyphantes; no justification provided for elevation of Acanthoneta from subgenus)
Poeciloneta hengshanensis Yin et al., 2012: 548, f. 262a-e (m, T from Acanthoneta)
Acanoides hengshanensis Sun, Marusik & Tu, 2014: 86, f. 1D-F, 3A-G, 5A-H (m, Df, T from Poeciloneta)
Acanoides hengshanensis Zhan et al., 2019: 9, f. 3B (f)
Acanoides ningxiangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063543
Acanoides ningxiangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng in Irfan et al., 2025a: 9, f. 4A-D, 5A-C, 6A-D (Dmf) Original description

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