Slowik, Jozef;Blagoev, Gergin A.
Linyphiidae
Sign in to saveLinyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising around 5,000 described species in around 650 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae.
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Linyphiidae is a family of arachnids within the order Araneae, class Arachnida, and phylum Arthropoda. The taxon was described by Blackwall in 1859 and is currently accepted. Members of this family are commonly known as line weavers.
Records for Linyphiidae indicate a habitat range that includes marine and brackish environments. The family has been documented in the United States, with records held by institutions such as UAM. There are 9,399 records and 134 media items associated with these entries.
The taxon has 1,256,624 occurrences recorded. It is referenced by 1,707 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
line weavers
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyLinyphiidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9,399
- With media
- 134
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Collections
- UAM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Araneoidea
- Image
- Linyphia.spec.6856.jpg
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- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Linyphiidae
- taxon common name
- baldahinarji
- taxon name
- Linyphiidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Linyphiidae
- taxonomic type
- Linyphia
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- Predators and prey
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- References
- External links
Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising around 5,000 described species in around 650 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae.
The family is poorly understood due to their small body size and wide distribution; new genera and species are still being discovered throughout the world. The newest such genus is Himalafurca from Nepal, formally described in April 2021 by Tanasevitch. Since it is so difficult to identify such tiny spiders, there are regular changes in taxonomy as species are combined or divided.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linyphiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.