N.B.: first used as subfamily by Simon, 1878a: 208 (corrected from Wagner, 1887: 104 by Marusik, 2023a: 363); genera listed by Roewer under the subfamilies Anyphaeninae, Corinninae, Liocraninae, and Micariinae have been apportioned to the Anyphaenidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae and Miturgidae; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 519, f. 19.