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Sheetweb and Dwarf Weavers
Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae is a family of very small spiders, including more than 4,300 described species in 601 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae. New species are still being discovered throughout the world, and the family is poorly known. Because of the difficulty in identifying such tiny spiders, there are regular changes in taxonomy as species are combined or divided.
7 branches of this family, most-observed first
Sheet-weavers
subfamilyLinyphiinae
Dwarf Spiders
subfamilyErigoninae
Micronetinae
subfamilyMicronetinae
Dubiaraneinae
subfamilyDubiaraneinae
Stemonyphantinae
subfamilyStemonyphantinae
Mynogleninae
subfamilyMynogleninae
Ipainae
subfamilyIpainae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Linyphiidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 67599.