Titanoecidae

Titanoecidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. It is fairly widespread in the New World and Eurasia with five genera and more than 50 species worldwide. these are mostly dark-colored builders of 'woolly' (cribellate) silk webs. Several species are found at relatively high altitudes in mountain ranges and may be very common in such habitats. As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: