N.B.: new circumscribed (
Bromella [transferred from the Dictynidae],
Cicurina and
Chorizomma [both transferred from the Hahniidae]) and restored family status by
Gorneau et al., 2023: 11 (as per
Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii, see below), with the authorship of
Kishida, 1955: 4 (see also
Ono & Ogata, 2018: 619), but the oldest found mention is by
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893: 158 (sub Cicurinae, see also
Bonnet, 1956: 1091); the former transfers of
Cicurina and related genera (Cicurininae sensu Lehtinen, 1967) from the Agelenidae to the Dictynidae (
Lehtinen, 1967) have been accepted by
Cokendolpher, 2004a: 28;
Cicurina, as well as
Chorizomma Simon, 1872 and
Mastigusa Menge, 1854 (which were not explicitely listed by
Wheeler et al., 2017) were transferred from the Dictynidae to the Hahniidae by
Wheeler et al., 2017: 607;
Mastigusa is transferred to the Cybaeidae by
Castellucci et al., 2023: 6; the transfers of
Chorizomma,
Cicurina and
Mastigusa (and other genera) to the Cicurinidae by
Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii were not sufficiently justified and were not accepted here.