N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hadrotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (per Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, rejecting Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).
In synonymy:
Nesticodes albonotatus (Taczanowski, 1874) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 384, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes bajulans (L. Koch, 1875) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1900a: 450, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes borbonicus (Vinson, 1863) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1898c: 277, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes flavoaurantiacus (L. Koch, 1875) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1900a: 450, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes longipes (van Hasselt, 1882) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1900a: 450, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes luteipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1900a: 450, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes luteolus (Blackwall, 1859) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Kulczyński, 1899: 374, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes nelsoni (Bryant, 1945, T from Anelosimus) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Levi, 1956b: 413, sub Theridion)
Nesticodes pilosus (Denis, 1956, T from Robertus) = Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Levi, 1957a: 56, sub Theridion)