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. Diploplecta Millidge, 1988 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00932
type Diploplecta communis Millidge, 1988; gender feminine
Diploplecta adjacens Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010085
Diploplecta adjacens Millidge, 1988a: 56, f. 220, 231 (Df) Original description
Diploplecta australis (Forster, 1955) | | New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010132
Drapetisca australis Forster, 1955c: 193, f. 40-44 (Df) Original description
Diploplecta australis Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2020: 58, f. 2C (f, T from Drapetisca)
Diploplecta communis Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010086 TYPE SPECIES
Diploplecta communis Millidge, 1988a: 52, f. 215-216, 221-225, 233-234 (Dmf) Original description
Diploplecta communis Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2020: 59, f. 2A (f)
Diploplecta duplex Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010087
Diploplecta duplex Millidge, 1988a: 55, f. 217, 228, 235-236 (Dmf) Original description
Diploplecta nuda Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010088
Diploplecta nuda Millidge, 1988a: 56, f. 218, 229 (Df) Original description
Diploplecta opaca Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010089
Diploplecta opaca Millidge, 1988a: 55, f. 230, 237, 239 (Dmf) Original description
Diploplecta proxima Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010090
Diploplecta proxima Millidge, 1988a: 55, f. 226-227 (Dmf; N.B.: m not figured) Original description
Diploplecta pumilio (Urquhart, 1886) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008632
Theridion pumilio Urquhart, 1886: 190, pl. 7, f. 3 (Dmf) Original description
Diploplecta pumilio Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2020: 58, f. 2B (f, T from Theridion)
Diploplecta simplex Millidge, 1988 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010091
Diploplecta simplex Millidge, 1988a: 56, f. 219, 232, 238 (Df) Original description

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