Phyxelididae
| Lace web spiders | |
|---|---|
| female Themacrys irrorata | |
| female Vidole capensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Phyxelididae Lehtinen, 1967 |
| Diversity | |
| 14 genera, 68 species | |
| blue: reported countries (WSC) | |
Phyxelididae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967 as a subfamily of Amaurobiidae, and later elevated to family status as a sister group of Titanoecidae.