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.

Gen. Evansia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00970

type Evansia merens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Evansia cirtensis (Simon, 1884) -- see Didectoprocnemis

Evansia subrostrata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) -- see Diplocephalus

Evansia merens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | | Europe, Russia (Europe, South Siberia), Japan? urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010584 TYPE SPECIES

Evansia merens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 38, f. 10 (Dm) Original description

Evansia merens Smith, 1901a: 359, f. 1l, 2f (m)

Evansia moerens Simon, 1926: 396, 501, f. 703-704 (m, Df, p. 501 spelled maerens; unjustified emendations)

Evansia merens Bristowe, 1939: 163, f. 10 (f)

Evansia maerens Roewer, 1942a: 700

Evansia maerens Miller, 1951: 209, pl. I, f. 22-23 (mf)

Evansia merens Locket & Millidge, 1953: 261, f. 159A-C (mf)

Evansia maerens Tullgren, 1955: 338, f. 43a-b (m)

Evansia merens Wiehle, 1960a: 184, f. 322-328 (mf)

Evansia merens Merrett, 1963b: 433, f. 113A-C (m)

Evansia merens Tystshenko, 1971: 265, f. 867, 871 (mf)

Evansia merens Miller, 1971: 274, pl. 58, f. 3, pl. 60, f. 25 (mf)

Evansia merens Palmgren, 1976: 69, f. 19.6-7 (mf)

Evansia merens Millidge, 1977: 30, f. 115 (m)

Evansia merens Saito, 1983c: 50, f. 1 (f; probably not conspecific with the European one)

Evansia merens Roberts, 1987: 70, f. 27i, 29c (mf)

Evansia merens Tanasevitch, 1990: 104, f. 21.20, 22.20, 24.51 (mf)

Evansia merens Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 160, f. 434 (mf)

Evansia merens Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 261, f. 28-29 (mf)

Evansia cf. merens Iwanaga & Nozaki, 2025: 36, f. A-E (m)