Taintnops

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Taintnops

| authority = Platnick, 1994

| type_species = T. goloboffi

| type_species_authority = Platnick, 1994

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| T. goloboffi|Platnick, 1994 – Chile

| T. paposo|Brescovit & Sánchez-Ruiz, 2016 – Chile}}

}}

Taintnops is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1994.{{cite journal| last=Platnick| first=N. I.| year=1994| title=A review of the Chilean spiders of the family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae).| journal=American Museum Novitates| pages=1–10| issue=3113}} {{as of|2019|04}} it contains only two species, both found in Chile.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Taintnops Platnick, 1994| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-18| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/493| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}