World Spider Catalog

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; other subfamilies are Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7 and Mynogleninae Lehtinen, 1967: 250.

Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01254

N.B.: Palaeolinyphia Wunderlich, 1986: 83 (type P. flagellifera Wunderlich, 1986, from Dominican amber) was considered a senior synonym of Selenyphantes by Platnick, 1993c: 349 because of Wunderlich's transfer of Lephthyphantes longispinosus to Palaeolinyphia; Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 909 synonymized the type species of Palaeolinyphia (P. flagellifera Wunderlich, 1986) with Jalapyphantes minoratus and therefor in fact, but not explicitly, Palaeolinyphia with Jalapyphantes.

Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 | | Costa Rica urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053283

Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 946, f. 28A-H, 29A-H, 33A, 35A, 36D, 37D (Dmf) Original description

Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053282

Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 946, f. 26A-H, 27A-H, 32C, 34C, 36C, 37C, 39D-F, 40A, E, G, J-L (Dmf) Original description

Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053284

Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 947, f. 30A-H, 33B, 35B, 39G, 40B, F, I (Dm) Original description

Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) | | Mexico, Guatemala urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012602

Lepthyphantes longispinosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 188, f. pl. 23, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Selenyphantes longispinosa Gertsch & Davis, 1946: 7, f. 12 (Df, T from Lepthyphantes)

Palaeolinyphia longispinosa Wunderlich, 1986: 84, f. 169-174 (m, T from Lepthyphantes; N.B.: Wunderlich was unaware of above T)

Selenyphantes longispinosus Ibarra-Núñez, Maya-Morales & Chamé-Vázquez, 2011: 1186, f. 6f (m)

Selenyphantes longispinosus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 939, f. 22A-H, 23A-H, 32A, 34A, 36A, 37A, 39H, 40C (mf)

Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 | | Mexico, Guatemala urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053281

Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 944, f. 24A-H, 25A-H, 32B, 34B, 36B, 37B, 39A-C, 40D, 41C-D (Dmf) Original description

Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053285

Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021: 947, f. 31A-H, 33C, 35C (Dm) Original description