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. Yuelushannus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar & Peng, 2020 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04599
type Yuelushannus barbatus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar & Peng, 2020; gender masculine
Yuelushannus alatus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051836
Yuelushannus alatus Irfan et al., 2020: 4, f. 1A-D, 2A-B, 3A-C, 4A-B, 5A-G (Dmf) Original description
Yuelushannus baishaensis Irfan, C. C. Zhang, Cai & Z. S. Zhang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065366
Yuelushannus baishaensis Irfan et al., 2025b: 446, f. 11A-D, 12A-C (Dm) Original description
Yuelushannus barbatus Irfan, Zhou, Bashir, Mukhtar & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051835 TYPE SPECIES
Yuelushannus barbatus Irfan et al., 2020: 9, f. 6A-F, 7A-B, 8A-C, 9A-, 10A-F (Dmf) Original description
Yuelushannus danxia He & Guo, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065256
Yuelushannus danxia He & Guo in He et al., 2025: 529, f. 1a-d, 2a-b, 3a-f (Dmf) Original description
Yuelushannus diaotangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063613
Yuelushannus diaotangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng in Irfan et al., 2025a: 229, f. 301A-C, 302A-B (Df) Original description
Yuelushannus jinyuanensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063614
Yuelushannus jinyuanensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng in Irfan et al., 2025a: 230, f. 303A-C, 304A-B (Df) Original description
Yuelushannus wenfengensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063615
Yuelushannus wenfengensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng in Irfan et al., 2025a: 233, f. 305A-C, 306A-B (Df) Original description

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