consisting of Hypochilidae and the remaining haplogynes. The precise phylogenetic position of the family was described in 2014 as "one of the most enigmatic problems in spider phylogeny". A 2015 study, based on genomic data, places Filistatidae with Hypochilidae in a clade outside most of the families previously placed in Haplogynae: This placement suggests that features that were thought to be "primitive" to araneomorph spiders as a whole (such as an M-shaped midgut) could actually be novel derived features (synapomorphies) of the Hypochilidae-Filistatidae clade. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: Afrofilistata Benoit, 1968 — Sudan Andoharano Lehtinen, 1967 — Namibia, Madagascar Antilloides Brescovit, Sánchez-Ruiz & Alayón, 2016 — Mexico Filistata Latreille, 1810 — Australia, Asia Filistatinella Gertsch & Ivie, 1936 — Mexico, United States Filistatoides F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 — Guatemala, Chile, Cuba Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967 — North America, Central America, Chile Labahitha Zonstein, Marusik & Magalhaes, 2017 — Malaysia Lihuelistata Ramírez & Grismado, 1997 — Argentina Microfilistata Zonstein, 1990 — Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan Misionella Ramírez & Grismado, 1997 — Brazil, Argentina Pholcoides Roewer, 1960 — Afghanistan, Tajikistan, India Pikelinia Mello-Leitão, 1946 — South America Pritha Lehtinen, 1967 — Asia, Oceania, Africa, France Sahastata Benoit, 1968 — Asia, Eritrea Tricalamus Wang, 1987 — China, Japan, Afghanistan Wandella Gray, 1994 — Australia Yardiella Gray, 1994 — Australia Zaitunia Lehtinen, 1967 — Asia, Greece See also List of Filistatidae species References Spiders of South America Taxa named by Anton Ausserer