Mecynidis

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Mecynidis

| authority = Simon, 1894

| type_species = M. dentipalpis

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1894

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 8, see text

}}

Mecynidis is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon}} Originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, it was moved to the Linyphiidae in 1964.{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1964| title=Redescription of the type species of the spider genera Artonis, Chorizopes and Mecynidis (Araneae: Araneidae and Linyphiidae)| journal=Annals of the Natal Museum| volume=16| page=209| author-link=Herbert_Walter_Levi}}