N.B.: established by Forster & Platnick, 1984: 65; considered a subfamily of Archaeidae by Wunderlich, 1986 and Eskov, 1987c, of Mimetidae by Wunderlich, 2004i: 1257, valid by Rix, 2006, synonymized with Malkaridae Davies, 1980 by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 243, re-elevation to family level by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards).

Transferred to other families:

Anarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae

Flavarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae

Forstrarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae

Nanarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae

Ozarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae

Pararchaea Forster, 1955 -- see Malkaridae

Westrarchaea Rix, 2006 -- see Malkaridae