Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0103] Detail
In synonymy:
Phaulothrix Bertkau, 1885 = Leptothrix Menge, 1869 (Prószyński & Staręga, 1971: 125)
Gen. Leptothrix Menge, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01055] Detail
type Leptothrix clavipes Menge, 1869; gender feminine; syn. of Leptothrix hardyi (Blackwall, 1850)
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Phaulothrix Bertkau, in Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 227 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05211] (type Walckenaera hardyi Blackwall, 1850) by Prószyński & Starega, 1971: 125 (through transfer of the  type species); those names are not senior synonyms of Hilaira Simon, 1884 (Merrett, Locket & Millidge, 1985: 397, contra Millidge, 1977: 8); Phaulothrix was given as replacement name, but the name is only valid outside of Animalia in Proteobacteria by Kützing, 1843.
Transferred to other genera:
Leptothrix intercepta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) -- see Oreoneta
Leptothrix pargongensis (Paik, 1965) -- see Strandella
In synonymy:
Leptothrix clavipes Menge, 1869 = Leptothrix hardyi (Blackwall, 1850) (Thorell, 1873: 449, sub Erigone).
Leptothrix hardyi (Blackwall, 1850) * | m f | Europe     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011341]
Walckenaera hardii Blackwall, 1850: 340 (Dm; patronym for Hardy).
Walckenaera hardii Blackwall, 1864a: 292, pl. 20, f. 206 (m).
Leptothrix clavipes Menge, 1869: 240, pl. 47, f. 140 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058155].
Erigone hardii Thorell, 1873: 449 (S of Leptothrix clavipes).
Leptothrix hardii Bertkau, 1880b: 308.
Phaulothrix hardii Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 215, 227.
Tmeticus hardi Simon, 1884a: 383, f. 156-157 (mf).
Tmeticus carpenteri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895b: 108, f. 2 (f; misidentified).
Tmeticus hardii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 59, f. 12.
Phaulothrix hardii Bösenberg, 1902: 167, pl. 15, f. 226 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardi Simon, 1926: 420, 510, f. 741 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Locket & Millidge, 1953: 321, f. 192F, 194D-F (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Wiehle, 1956: 24, f. 24-31 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Brændegaard, 1958: 71, f. 67-69 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Merrett, 1963b: 412, f. 87A-C (m).
Phaulothrix hardyi Tystshenko, 1971: 212, f. 648 (f).
Phaulothrix hardyi Miller, 1971: 243, pl. XLVIII, f. 18-20 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Bahrim, 1971: 171, f. 1-2 (f).
Phaulothrix hardyi Palmgren, 1975: 89, f. 22.11-14 (mf).
Phaulothrix hardyi Millidge, 1977: 8, f. 18 (m).
Leptothrix hardyi Roberts, 1987: 104, f. 50c-d (mf).
Leptothrix hardyi Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 176, f. 475 (mf).
Leptothrix hardyi Agnarsson, 1996: 124, f. 132A-C (mf).
up