Pocobletinae Silva-Moreira & 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 : 61

Subfamily Pocobletinae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga , new subfamily

Erigoninae [ad partem] + Linyphiinae [ad partem] Petrunkevitch 1928

Stemonyphantes group ( Millidge, 1977, 1984) [ad partem]

Pocobletus clade. Silva-Moreira & Hormiga 2021

Type genus: Pocobletus Simon, 1894

Diagnosis: Pocobletines are diagnosed by a concave-coiled tegulum (versus a diversity of linyphiid tegular morphologies, such as globular and flattened tegulum; e.g., Hormiga 2000: fig. 11), an exposed column in the male palp ( Silva-Moreira and Hormiga 2021, figs 14; 32; 33; 43) (versus a hidden column in the unexpanded palp; e.g., see Hormiga 2000: figs 1, 13, 21) and, in females, a membranous sac or channel connecting the epigynal copulatory opening to the copulatory duct ( Silva-Moreira and Hormiga 2021, figs 17A–E; 32; 37; 44) (versus the widespread absence of such sac; e.g., Hormiga & Scharff 2005: figs 7B, 10D, 13B, C).

Composition: The subfamily Pocobletinae ( Fig. 3 ), referred to as the Pocobletus clade in Silva-Moreira & Hormiga (2021),comprises in addition to the type genus the genera Jalapyphantes Gertsch & Davis and Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis ( Table 8).

Distribution: Southern North America, Central and South America.

Figures

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.