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. Metapanamomops Millidge, 1977 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01093
type Micrargus kaestneri Wiehle, 1961; gender masculine
N.B.: considered a junior synonym of Elaphopus Menge, 1879 by Wunderlich, 2008e: 687, but Wunderlich supplied no new data about the identity of the type species of that name, E. flagillifera (Menge, 1869), which remains a nomen dubium (see note under Elaphopus).
Metapanamomops kaestneri (Wiehle, 1961) | | Germany to Russia (Europe), Finland urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011762 TYPE SPECIES
Micrargus kaestneri Wiehle, 1961b: 177, f. 12-16 (Dm) Original description
Metapanamomops kaestneri Millidge, 1977: 23, f. 81 (m, T from Micrargus)
Micrargus kaestneri Wozny, 1978: 437, f. 1-3 (Df)
Metapanamomops kaestneri Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 212, f. 573 (mf)
Metapanamomops kaestneri Løvbrekke in Platen, 2021: 158, 1 f. (m)

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