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Sheetweb and Dwarf Weavers
Linyphiidae
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.
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
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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.