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. Emertongone Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05283
type Lophocarenum montiferum Emerton, 1882; gender feminine
Emertongone montifera (Emerton, 1882) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012116 TYPE SPECIES
Lophocarenum montiferum Emerton, 1882: 47, pl. 13, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description
Gongylidium montiferum Simon, 1884a: 500
Erigone montifera Marx, 1890a: 535
Neriene montifera Simon, 1894a: 633
Oedothorax montiferus Crosby, 1905a: 312, 335
Diplocephalus montiferus Banks, 1916: 73
Oedothorax montiferus Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 266, pl. 22, f. 74-78 (mf)
Oedothorax montiferus Kaston, 1948: 173, f. 486-492 (mf)
Oedothorax montifer Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 115, f. 1186-1189 (mf)
Emertongone montifera Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022: 525, f. 7A, 66A-G, 67C, 68C, S5B (mf, T from Oedothorax)

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