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; 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.

Nomina dubia

Micryphantes C. L. Koch, 1833, type M. ovatus C. L. Koch, 1833 -- Mikhailov, 1996: 94

Gen. Micryphantes C. L. Koch, 1833 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04408

type Micryphantes ovatus C. L. Koch, 1833; gender masculine

Nomina dubia:

Micryphantes albertinae (Walckenaer, 1841: 349, France, originally in Argus) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589

Micryphantes alutacius (C. L. Koch, 1837b: 12, Germany, originally in Dictyna) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1461, 1589

Micryphantes bicolor (Hahn, 1833a: 91, f. 69, mf, Germany, originally in Theridion) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589, 1680

Micryphantes bicuspidatus C. L. Koch, 1838: 138, f. 138-139 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589

Micryphantes bipunctatus Simon, 1864: 194 (Belgium) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589

Micryphantes ceciliae (Walckenaer, 1841: 360, f, France, originally in Argus) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1412

Micryphantes columella Grube, 1859: 468 (m, Latvia) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589

Micryphantes crassipes Menge, 1869: 239 (m, Poland) -- Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 131

Micryphantes flavipes C. L. Koch, 1835: 129, pl. 18-19 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: omitted, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick

Micryphantes galeatus C. L. Koch, 1833: 121, pl. 23 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: omitted, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick

Micryphantes hiemalis C. L. Koch, 1837b: 11 (Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1589

Micryphantes lividus Menge, 1869: 236, f. 135 (mf, Poland) -- Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 131

Micryphantes longipes C. L. Koch, 1833: 121, pl. 22 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: omitted, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick

Micryphantes lugens C. L. Koch, 1837b: 11 (Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes mathildae (Walckenaer, 1841: 359, f, France, originally in Argus) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1413, 1590

Micryphantes miniatus Grube, 1861: 167 (f, Russia/Siberia) -- Breitling, 2015b: 480

Micryphantes olivaceus C. L. Koch, 1836b: 137, pl. 5-6 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes ovatus C. L. Koch, 1833: 121, pl. 19 (mf, Germany) -- Mikhailov, 1996: 96

Micryphantes punctulatus C. L. Koch, 1836a: 12, f. 170 (f, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes rufipalpus C. L. Koch, 1836a: 66, f. 218-219 (mf, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes sulcicollis Grube, 1859: 467 (m, Estonia) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes sulculus C. L. Koch, 1837b: 12 (Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes terrestris (Wider, 1834: 239, pl. 16, f. 5a-b, mf, Germany, originally in Theridion) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes tesselatus C. L. Koch, 1836a: 86, pl. 110, f. 233 (m, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590

Micryphantes villosus C. L. Koch, 1845: 156, f. 1075 (f, Germany) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1590