Taxon details


Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-03-18
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011824]
  • Distribution: North America, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834, 1 f (4183-124)
  • Lectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 1 f (3945-124)
  • Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; f (253) of Linyphia carnica (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Paralectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 23 j, 8 f (23969-124)
  • Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 4j (254, 255, 278, 279) of Linyphia carnica (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Linyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830: 214 (Dmf).
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1833: 349 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060263].
Theridion signatum Hahn, 1834: 40, f. 125 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060264].
Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834: 251, pl. 17, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060265].
Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834: 252, pl. 17, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060266].
Theridion ampullaceum Walckenaer, 1837: 336 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060267].
Linyphia pascuensis Walckenaer, 1841: 251 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060268].
Linyphia globosa Walckenaer, 1841: 272 (Dm).
Linyphia pratensis C. L. Koch, 1845: 121, f. 1043-1046 (f).
Linyphia signata C. L. Koch, 1850: 18.
Linyphia pusilla Westring, 1851: 37 (S of Linyphia pratensis).
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1864a: 216, pl. 15, f. 142 (m, Df).
Linyphia pusilla Menge, 1866: 109, pl. 19, f. 36 (mf).
Linyphia pratensis Ohlert, 1867: 45 (Dm).
Linyphia pusilla Thorell, 1870a: 50 (S of Linyphia signata and Theridion ampullaceum).
Linyphia pusilla O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874d: 329 (S of Linyphia fuliginea).
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1884a: 241 (S of Linyphia pascuensis).
Linyphia pusilla Keyserling, 1886b: 55, pl. 12, f. 163 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 58, pl. 2, f. 25 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Becker, 1896: 27, pl. 4, f. 2 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Bösenberg, 1901: 70, pl. 6, f. 72 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla quadripunctata Strand, 1903a: 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011825].
Poeciloneta globosa Strand, 1907e: 227 (S of Poeciloneta variegata; revalidated by Simon, 1929: 740).
Linyphia pusilla Engelhardt, 1910: 64, f. 20 (f).
Linyphia pusilla Comstock, 1912: 398, f. 411-412 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Fedotov, 1912a: 71, f. 13 (f).
Linyphia carnica Caporiacco, 1922: 81, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060105].
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1929: 638, 744, f. 985-987 (mf, S of Linyphia globosa and L. mandibulata; L. mandibulata revalidated by Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 24).
Lepthyphantes parenzani Caporiacco, 1932b: 95, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060112].
Linyphia baltistana Caporiacco, 1934a: 158, pl. 3, f. 10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060103].
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1934b: 307, pl. 15, f. 57 (f).
Linyphia pusilla Blauvelt, 1936: 130, pl. 11, f. 75-79 (mf).
Pusillia pusilla Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26 (T from Linyphia).
Pusillia bonita Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26, f. 41-42 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060104].
Linyphia pusilla Locket & Millidge, 1953: 400, f. 237D, 239A, 241C (mf).
Pusillia pusilla Hackman, 1954: 10, f. 121 (m).
Linyphia pusilla Wiehle, 1956: 331, f. 545-550 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1959: 78, f. 78a-j (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Merrett, 1963b: 376, f. 32A-E (m).
Neolinyphia pusilla Yaginuma, 1966d: 35 (T from Pusillia = Microlinyphia, rejected by van Helsdingen, 1970: 9).
Linyphia pusilla Azheganova, 1968: 67, f. 137-139 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1969: 75, pl. II, f. 6a-b (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1970: 9, f. 1-8 (mf, S of Linyphia baltistana, L. carnica and Microlinyphia bonita).
Linyphia pusilla Tystshenko, 1971: 9, f. 13, 742 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Miller, 1971: 222, pl. XLII, f. 27, pl. XLIII, f. 1-2 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Palmgren, 1975: 85, f. 20.5-8 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Punda, 1975b: 12, f. 13 (m).
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1982: 50, f. IV.3-4 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1982b: 169 (S of Lepthyphantes parenzani).
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1984b: 239, f. 7 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, 1987: 1134, f. 95 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1987: 164, f. 86b (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu & Wu, 1989: 158, f. 130.1-5 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1989: 227, f. LXX.3-4 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Izmailova, 1989: 77, f. 58 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Tanasevitch, 1990: 99, f. 27.12-14 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 216, f. 584 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1993c: 150, f. 42 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1995: 369, f. (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Zhao, 1995: 874, f. 413a-e (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Mcheidze, 1997: 300, f. 693-696 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1998: 380, f. (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 187, f. 106M-O, Q (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu, 2001: 524, f. 350.1-4 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 143, f. 1583-1585 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Bosmans, 2006a: 143, f. 55-58 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 342, f. 1267-1268 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Nentwig et al., 2019: 39 (S of Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata, confirms van Helsdingen, 1970: 11 'colour-variety').
Microlinyphia pusilla Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 168, f. 194A-D, 195A-C, 196A-D (mf).
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Caporiacco, L. di (1932b). Aracnidi raccolti in Albania dal dott. Pietro Parenzan. Atti dell'Accademia Scientifica Veneto-Trentino-Istriana (3) 23: 93-98. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1943). New genera and species of North American linyphiid spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 33(10): 1-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Helsdingen, P. J. van (1982b). Quelques remarques sur les Linyphiidae mentionnés par Di Caporiacco. Revue Arachnologique 3: 155-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Irfan, M., Zhang, Z. S. & Peng, X. J. (2022). Survey of Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) spiders from Yunnan, China. Megataxa 8(1): 1-292. doi:10.11646/megataxa.8.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Izmailova, M. V. (1989). [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk State University Publishing, 184 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Legotai, M. V. & Sekerskaya, N. P. (1989). Pauki. In: T. V. Ostrovskaya (ed.) Poleznaya fauna plodovogo sada. Agropromizat, Moscow, pp. 218-227. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-06-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zhao, 1995 n/a
2023-01-14 New taxonomic reference entry Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 n/a
2019-09-17 New taxonomic reference entry Nentwig et al., 2019 n/a
2019-09-17 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata synonymized with Microlinyphia pusilla