The Microstigmatidae are a small spider family with fifteen described species in seven genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of silk.

The family was removed form the family Dipluridae

Dipluridae

Funnel-web tarantulas , are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae that move up and down in a stabbing motion...

 in 1981. The subfamily Pseudonemesiinae from the Ctenizidae family was also transferred into the Microstigmatidae.

Species

Subfamilies are according to Joel Hallan.http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Microstigmatidae.txt

• Micromygalinae Platnick & Forster, 1982
• Micromygale Platnick & Forster
  Raymond Robert Forster
  Raymond Robert Forster was a spider expert.He wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17. He studied at Victoria University...
  
  , 1982

• Micromygale diblemma Platnick & Forster, 1982 — Panama

• Microstigmatinae Roewer,
• Envia Ott and Höfer, 2003

• Envia garciai
  Envia garciai
  Envia garciai is a small pale yellow species of mygalomorph spider from Brazil. It is the only described species in genus Envia....
  
  Ott and Höfer, 2003 (Brazil)
  • Microstigmata Strand, 1932 — South Africa
• Microstigmata amatola Griswold, 1985
• Microstigmata geophila (Hewitt, 1916)
• Microstigmata lawrencei Griswold, 1985
• Microstigmata longipes (Lawrence, 1938)
• Microstigmata ukhahlamba Griswold, 1985
• Microstigmata zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938)

• Ministigmata Raven & Platnick, 1981

• Ministigmata minuta Raven & Platnick, 1981 — Brazil

• Pseudonemesia Caporiacco,

• Pseudonemesia kochalkai Raven & Platnick, 1981 — Colombia
• Pseudonemesia parva Caporiacco, 1955 — Venezuela

• Spelocteniza Gertsch, 1982

• Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch
  Willis J. Gertsch
  Willis John Gertsch was an American arachnologist. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider....
  
  , 1982 — Ecuador

• Xenonemesia Goloboff, 1989

• Xenonemesia araucaria Indicatti et al., 2008 — Brazil
• Xenonemesia otti Indicatti, Lucas & Brescovit, 2007 — Brazil
• Xenonemesia platensis Goloboff, 1989 — Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay

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