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Palpimanoidea

Palpimanoidea or palpimanoids are a group of araneomorph spiders, originally treated as a superfamily. As with many such groups, its circumscription has varied. , the following five families were included:

  • Archaeidae
  • Huttoniidae
  • Mecysmaucheniidae
  • Palpimanidae
  • Stenochilidae

In 1984, Raymond R. Forster and Norman I. Platnick proposed that some groups previously considered araneoid actually belonged in the distantly related Palpimanoidea, including the families Holarchaeidae, Micropholcommatidae, Mimetidae and Pararchaeidae. Subsequent phylogenetic studies have rejected this proposal, firmly placing them in Araneoidea.

The Palpimanoidea (together with the Dionycha) are the only spider group with no cribellate members.