Mysmenidae is a

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

family with about 180 described species in seventeen genera. The family is one of the least well known of the orb-weaving spiders because of their small size () and cryptic behaviour. These spiders are found in humid habitats such as among leaf litter and in caves.

Distribution

Species occur in the

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and several islands.

Genera

, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: *'' Brasilionata'' Wunderlich, 1995 — Brazil *'' Chanea'' Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China *'' Chimena'' Lin & Li, 2022 — China, Taiwan *'' Drungena'' Lin & S. Li, 2023 — China *'' Gaoligonga'' Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China, Vietnam *'' Isela'' Griswold, 1985 — Kenya, South Africa *'' Maymena'' Gertsch, 1960 — North America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Central America, Peru *'' Mengmena'' Lin & Li, 2022 — China *'' Microdipoena'' Banks, 1895 — Africa, United States, Paraguay, Asia, Oceania *'' Mosu'' Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China *'' Mysmena'' Simon, 1894 — Oceania, Asia, Caribbean, North America, Algeria, Spain, South America, Panama *''

Mysmeniola ''Mysmeniola'' is a genus of spiders in the family Mysmenidae. It was first described in 1995 by Thaler. , it contains only one species, ''Mysmeniola spinifera'', found in Venezuela. References Mysmenidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera ...

'' Thaler, 1995 — Venezuela *'' Mysmenopsis'' Simon, 1898 — South America, Caribbean, North America, Central America *'' Phricotelus'' Simon, 1895 — Sri Lanka, China *'' Simaoa'' Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 *'' Trogloneta'' Simon, 1922 — Brazil, Asia, United States *'' Yamaneta'' Miller & Lin, 2019 — China

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* * * Araneomorphae families Taxa named by Alexander Petrunkevitch {{Araneomorphae-stub

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