Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separate family.
Genera
, this family includes 27 genera and 421 species:
- Abdosetae <small>Fu, Zhang & MacDermott, 2010</small> â China, Malaysia
- Aculithus <small>Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022</small> â China
- Alboculus <small>Liu, 2020</small> â China
- Beatitas <small>Mu & Zhang, 2023</small> â China
- Bosselaerius <small>Zamani & Marusik, 2020</small> â Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Iran
- Brevitubus <small>Zhu, Liao, Yin & Xu, 2025</small> â China
- Corealithus <small>Kamura, 2021</small> â China, Japan, Korea, Russia
- Dorymetaecus <small>Rainbow, 1920</small> â Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia
- Edelithus <small>Liu & Li, 2022</small> â China, Vietnam
- Grandilithus <small>Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022</small> â China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam
- Labialithus <small>Kamura, 2021</small> â China, Japan, Korea, Russia
- Lingulatus <small>Mu & Zhang, 2022</small> â China, Laos, Vietnam
- Liophrurillus <small>Wunderlich, 1992</small> â Algeria, Morocco, Madeira, Romania, Italy, Portugal, Spain, France
- Lunalithus <small>Kamura, 2022</small> â Japan
- Mutatus <small>Mu, Wang, F. Zhang & Z. S. Zhang, 2025</small> â China
- Otacilia <small>Thorell, 1897</small> â Asia
- Pennalithus <small>Kamura, 2021</small> â China, Japan, Korea, Russia
- Phonotimpus <small>Gertsch & Davis, 1940</small> â Mexico, Mexiko
- Phrurolinillus <small>Wunderlich, 1995</small> â Portugal, Spain
- Phrurolithus <small>C. L. Koch, 1839</small> â Morocco, Asia, Europe, Cuba, Hispaniola, United States. Introduced to Canada
- Phrurotimpus <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935</small> â China, North America
- Piabuna <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933</small> â Mexico, United States
- Plynnon <small>Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001</small> â China, Indonesia, Borneo
- Punctus <small>Mu & Zhang, 2023</small> â China
- Scotinella <small>Banks, 1911</small> â North America
- Xiaoliguang <small>Lin & Li, 2023</small> â Vietnam
- Xilithus <small>Liu & Li, 2023</small> â China, Japan
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