Stemonyphantinae Wunderlich, 1986

Hormiga, Gustavo, Kulkarni, Siddharth, Moreira, Thiago Da Silva & Dimitrov, Dimitar, 2021, Molecular phylogeny of pimoid spiders and the limits of Linyphiidae, with a reassessment of male palpal homologies (Araneae, Pimoidae), Zootaxa 5026 (1), pp. 71-101 : 98

Subfamily Stemonyphantinae Wunderlich, 1986

Stemonyphantinae Wunderlich, 1986: 120 .

Diagnosis: Male stemonyphantines are distinguished from other linyphiids by the presence on the tegulum of a conductor (absent in all other linyphiids), and sometimes a median apophysis (also absent in all other linyphiids), and an integral or partially integral paracymbium. The apical region of the cymbium of most stemonyphantines is either narrow and elongated ( Stemonyphantes ) or conical ( Weintrauboa , Putaoa ) (e.g., see figures in Blauvelt (1936), Merrett (1963), van Helsdingen (1968) and Gavish-Regev et al. (2013)).

Phylogenetics: Putative morphological synapomorphies include the basal embolic process and elongated distal region of the cymbium.

Distribution: Holarctic ( Stemonyphantes , 18 Palearctic and one Nearctic species), southern Iberian Peninsula and northern Africa ( Pecado impudicus ) and Asia ( Weintrauboa , Putaoa ).

Composition: Four genera, Stemonyphantes Menge, 1866 (19 species), Pecado Hormiga & Scharff, 2005 (monotypic), Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003 (eight species) and Putaoa Hormiga & Tu, 2008 (three species).