Toxopidae

Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940.^[2] For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct.^[3] A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 led to the family being revived.^[4]

Toxopidae
Myro kerguelenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae Hickman, 1940[1]
Diversity
14 genera, 85 species

Genera

Main article: List of Toxopidae species

As of April 2019^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:^[1]

• Gasparia Marples, 1956 – New Zealand
• Gohia Dalmas, 1917 – New Zealand
• Hapona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Jamara Davies, 1995 – Australia
• Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 – New Zealand, Australia
• Lamina Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Midgee Davies, 1995 – Australia
• Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 – Australia, New Zealand
• Neomyro Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Ommatauxesis Simon, 1903 – Australia
• Otagoa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Toxops Hickman, 1940 – Australia
• Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 – Australia, New Zealand