Dysderidae, C.L.Koch, 1837

Breitling, Rainer, 2021, A completely resolved phylogenetic tree of British spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), Ecologica Montenegrina 46, pp. 1-51 : 9

Dysderidae

Platania et al. (2020) show that Harpactea in its present form is a polyphyletic assembly of unrelated groups, the two British species being placed in deeply separated clades. Non-monophyly is also found for several other genera of Harpacteinae ( Folkia , Dasumia ), as well as for some of the previously proposed species groups within Harpactea . This indicates that the morphological recognition of monophyletic units within this family is unusually challenging. Consequently, instead of separating the two British species into different genera, it appears more pragmatic to extend the Harpactea genus concept and treat them as members of a single Harpactea s. lat.