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Phrurolithidae

{{short description|Family of spiders}}

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| image = Phrurolithus.lynx.female.1.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image_caption = Otacilia lynx

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Palaeogene|present}}

| taxon = Phrurolithidae

| authority = Banks, 1892

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| diversity = 24 genera, 360 species

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Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892.{{cite journal| last=Banks| first=N.| year=1892| title=A classification of North American spiders| journal=The Canadian Entomologist| volume=24| issue=4| pages=88–97| doi=10.4039/Ent2488-4| s2cid=83972486| url=https://zenodo.org/record/2460991}} First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separate family.{{Cite journal |last=Ramírez |first=Martín J. |year=2014 |title=The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=390 | pages=342–343|doi=10.1206/821.1 |hdl=2246/6537 |s2cid=86146467 |hdl-access=free }}

Genera

{{main|List of Phrurolithidae species}}

{{as of|2025|1}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:{{cite web |title=Family: Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892 |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/115 |access-date=30 January 2025 |website=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern}}

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Category:Araneomorphae families

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