Lathyidae
Sign in to saveLathyidae is a family of spiders established in 2025, comprising small cribellate araneomorph spiders. The family was erected following a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study that resolved the taxonomic confusion within the "tailor's drawer" family Dictynidae sensu lato.
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Lathyidae is a family of spiders established in 2025, comprising small cribellate araneomorph spiders. The family was erected following a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study that resolved the taxonomic confusion within the "tailor's drawer" family Dictynidae sensu lato.
==Taxonomy== The family Lathyidae was established by Cala-Riquelme, Montana, Crews & Esposito in 2025 as part of a major revision of Dictynidae sensu lato. The family name is based on the type genus Lathys, which was originally described by Eugène Simon in 1885 as a replacement name for Lethia Menge, 1869, which was preoccupied by a genus of moths.
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