Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0103] Back

Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01036 ]
N.B.: considered valid by Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 113, Millidge, 1984b: 241 and Merrett, Locket & Millidge, 1985: 399, contra Ivie, 1969: 64 (who considered it a subgenus of Bathyphantes Menge, 1866); not a junior synonym of Cresmatoneta Simon, 1929 (Millidge, 1984b: 241, contra Millidge, 1977: 46); considered a senior synonym of Coniphantes Ivie, 1969: 56 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06133] (type Linyphia pullata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863, subgenus of Bathyphantes) by Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 113 (by transfer of the type species).
Status: accepted
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2024-01-29
Described in
Wiehle, 1956: 272 (type Linyphia dorsalis Wider, 1834; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
7accepted
12synonym
Reference

Wiehle, H. (1956). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae – Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337. download pdf

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