N.B.: described as a subfamily of Anapidae, elevated to family status by Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003: 144 (see also Schütt, 2003: 134).

A. Miller, 2007b: 24, type A. madagascariensis Miller, 2007.

Africepheia madagascariensis Miller, 2007b: 25, f. 1-27, 29-34 (Dmf).

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiidae to the Symphytognathidae by Levi & Levi, 1962: 18, provisionally placed in Mysmenidae by Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2, transferred here by Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003: 145; for Brignoli, 1970b: 1413, not a senior synonym of Melos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899, regarded instead as an unidentifiable theridiid.

Theonoe longiseta Simon, 1881a: 132, pl. 26, f. 1 (Dmf).
Cepheia longiseta Simon, 1894a: 589, f. 592 (m).
Cepheia longiseta Levi & Levi, 1962: 64, f. 309-310 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Brignoli, 1970b: 1410, f. 11-14 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Wunderlich, 1980d: 267, f. 17, 42-43 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Thaler & Noflatscher, 1990: 173, f. 25-29 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 306, f. 823 (m).
Cepheia longiseta Lopardo & Hormiga, 2007: 3, f. 1-63 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Le Peru, 2011: 346, f. 598 (mf).
Cepheia longiseta Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 734, f. 106A-G, 107A-G, 108A-H, 109A-E, 137A-B, 139B, 146D-E (mf).

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiidae to the Symphytognathidae by Levi & Levi, 1962: 29, placed provisionally in Mysmenidae by Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2, transferred here by Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003: 144.

Synaphris agaetensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 138, f. 367-368 (Dmf).

Synaphris calerensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 137, f. 364-366 (Dmf).

Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1980d: 261, f. 1-14 (Dmf).
Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1986: 218, f. 227a.
Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 137, f. 362 (m).
Synaphris dalmatensis Le Peru, 2011: 347, f. 599 (mf).

Synaphris franzi Wunderlich, 1987a: 138, f. 369 (Df).

Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005: 125, f. 1-4, 6-14, 18-31 (Dmf).
Synaphris lehtineni Marusik & Zonstein, 2011: 37, f. 12, 15-16 (m).
Synaphris lehtineni Le Peru, 2011: 347, f. 600 (mf).
Synaphris lehtineni Nae, 2015: 27, f. 2-3 (m).

Grammonota letourneuxi Simon, 1884a: 599 (Dm).
Synaphris letourneuxi Simon, 1894a: 589.
Synaphris letourneuxi Levi & Levi, 1962: 64, f. 311 (m).
Synaphris letourneuxi Brignoli, 1970b: 1407, f. 7-10 (m).
Synaphris letourneuxi Wunderlich, 1980d: 259, f. 15-16 (m).
Synaphris letourneuxi Wunderlich, 1987a: 137, f. 363 (m).
Synaphris letourneuxi Marusik & Zonstein, 2011: 37, f. 21-22 (m).

Synaphris orientalis Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003: 150, f. 1-24 (Dm).
Synaphris orientalis Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005: 128, f. 5, 15-17, 32 (m).
Synaphris orientalis Marusik & Zonstein, 2011: 37, f. 13, 17 (m).

Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007: 3, f. 1-62 (Dm; N.B.: considered a junior S of S. lehtineni by Le Peru, 2011: 345).
Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 734, f. 110A-G, 111A-H, 146F (m).

Synaphris schlingeri Miller, 2007b: 27, f. 28, 35-52, 55-66 (Dmf).

Synaphris toliara Miller, 2007b: 28, f. 53-54, 67-79 (Dmf).

Synaphris wunderlichi Marusik & Zonstein, 2011: 38, f. 1-11, 14, 18-20 (Dm).