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:
Keijia Yoshida, 2001 = Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 3, preoccupied, replacement name)
Transferred to other genera:
Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Yunohamella
In synonymy:
Platnickina blatchleyi (Bryant, 1945) = Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934) (Archer, 1946: 46, sub Theridion hobbsi)
Platnickina cinerascens (Roewer, 1942) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) (Levi, 1957a: 58, sub Theridion)
Platnickina hobbsi (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) = Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934) (Levi, 1959b: 112, sub Theridion)
Platnickina insulicola (Bryant, 1947) = Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934) (Levi, 1957a: 62, sub Theridion hobbsi)
Platnickina irrorata (C. L. Koch, 1838) = Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Walckenaer, 1841: 308, sub Theridion)
Platnickina longimana (Sundevall, 1831) = Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Thorell, 1870a: 83, sub Theridion)
Platnickina magnificum (Archer, 1950) = Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934) (Levi, 1957a: 63, sub Theridion hobbsi)
Platnickina punctata (Walckenaer, 1802, T from Aranea) = Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Bonnet, 1959: 4542, sub Theridion)
Platnickina punctulata (Menge, 1868, T from Steatoda) = Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Thorell, 1870a: 84, sub Theridion)
Platnickina talmo (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) (Levi, 1957a: 58, sub Theridion)
Homonym replaced:
Platnickina cinerea (Emerton, 1913) -- see Platnickina alabamensis Gertsch & Archer, 1942 Gertsch & Archer, 1942