Pocobletinae, Silva-Moreira & Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2025

Silva-Moreira, Thiago Da, Kulkarni, Siddharth & Hormiga, Gustavo, 2025, A total evidence phylogenetic analysis of the spider family Linyphiidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), Zootaxa 5685 (1), pp. 1-78 : 44

Pocobletinae new subfamily ( Figs 3 , 10 — see TAXONOMY section for details)

Silva-Moreira & Hormiga (2021) recognized the Pocobletus clade, a lineage that includes Jalapyphantes Gertsch & Davies , Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davies , and Pocobletus Simon. These genera were considered part of Linyphiinae by Tanasevich (2025). In this study, we elevate this group to subfamily rank with original composition and diagnosis of Silva-Moreira & Hormiga (2021).

This clade is supported by 17 synapomorphies, three of which are non-homoplasious ( Fig. 10 ): a concave-coiled tegulum (char 59), an exposed column (char 86), and the presence of a membranous epigynal sac or channel connecting the copulatory openings to the copulatory ducts (char 150). Its monophyly received full support in all analyses and matrices in this study ( Fig. 3 , Tables 5 and 6) and in the analyses of Silva-Moreira & Hormiga (2021) (q. v. for a more in-depth analysis of this clade).

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FIGURE 3. Partial tree from the preferred hypothesis for linyphioids (M4_MB). Pimoidae, Stemonyphantinae, and Pocobletinae new subfamily. Black-colored squares represent nodes with posterior probability =1; gray-colored squares represent nodes with posterior probability between 0.95 and 0.99.

FIGURE 10. Optimization of the phenotypic matrix characters (DELTRAN optimization) on the pruned preferred hypothesis tree. Dashed line delimits the linyphioid clade. Solid line delimits Linyphiidae. Black circles indicate non-homoplasious synapomorphies, while white circles indicate homoplasious transformations.