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Ablemma
Ablemma is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Tetrablemmidae that was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1963.
Chilumena
Chilumena is a genus of spiders endemic to Australia in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1995 by Rudy Jocqué. , it contains 2 species.

Wandella
Wandella is a genus of Australian crevice weavers that was first described by Michael R. Gray in 1994.
Poecilipta
Poecilipta is a genus of South Pacific corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897.

Stiphidion
Stiphidion is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. Originally placed with the Psechridae, it was moved to the Stiphidiinae in 1967. It is considered a senior synonym of Amarara.
Methesis
Methesis is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1896. Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to Corinnidae in 1969. it contains only two species.
Storenosoma
Storenosoma is a genus of Australian tangled nest spiders first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1900.
Tinytrema
Tinytrema is a genus of spiders in the family Trachycosmidae. It was first described in 2002 by Platnick. , it contains 5 Australian species. Commonly found in Australia, they are described as extremely small and flat with white spots on the abdomen.
Neostorena
Neostorena is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1914 by William Joseph Rainbow. , it contains 7 species from Australia.
Piabuna
Piabuna is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1933. Originally added to the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002, then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.
Medmassa
Medmassa is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887 under the name "Megaera", later renamed because "Megaera" was already in use as a synonym of the reptile genus Trimeresurus.
Ozarchaea
Ozarchaea is a genus of South Pacific shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006.
Umuara
Umuara is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Antônio Brescovit in 1997.
Nanarchaea
Nanarchaea is a genus of Australian shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006. it contains only two species, found in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland: N. binnaburra and N. bryophila.
Parachemmis
Parachemmis is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Arthur M. Chickering in 1937 as a genus of ground spiders. It was transferred to Liocranidae in 1969, and to Corinnidae in 1994.
Trachyspina
Trachyspina is a genus of spiders in the family Trachycosmidae. It was first described in 2002 by Platnick. , it contains 8 species, all from Australia.
Nicodamus
Nicodamus is a genus of small spiders known from Australia. They are often referred to as the red and black spiders. As of 2017 its two species include Nicodamus peregrinus and Nicodamus mainae.

Leptopholcus
Leptopholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.

Palystes
Palystes is a genus of huntsman spiders, commonly called rain spiders or lizard-eating spiders, occurring in Africa, India, Australia, and the Pacific. The most common and widespread species is P. superciliosus, found in South Africa, home to 12 species in the genus. The name Palystes is derived from either the Latin palaestes or the Greek palaistes, meaning "wrestler". The genus was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

Dendrolycosa
Dendrolycosa is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Doleschall in 1859.
Minasteron
Minasteron is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2000 by Baehr & Jocqué. , it contains 3 Australian species.
Thelcticopis
Thelcticopis is a genus of huntsman spiders that occurs almost exclusively in the area India to Japan to New Guinea and Fiji. Two geographically outlying species, T. humilithorax (Simon, 1909) from Gabon (originally said as the "French Congo") and T. truculenta Karsch, 1884 from São Tomé and Príncipe are both probably misplaced in this genus.
Tupua
genus of arachnids

Martensopoda
Martensopoda is a genus of Indian huntsman spiders that was first described by Peter Jäger in 2006. it contains three species, found in India: M. minuscula, M. sanctor, and M. transversa.

Panjange
Panjange is a genus of leaf-dwelling spiders in the family Pholcidae, widely distributed in the islands of Southeast Asia from Borneo and the Philippines to northern Australia. Panjange spiders exhibit some of the most extraordinary morphology among Pholcidae. Males of most species have eye stalks, sometimes with long pointed processes; males of some species have unusually elongated pedipalps, which in spiders function as copulatory organs; and females of some species have external portions of their genitalia strongly folded and extensible. The biological significance of these sexual modificat
Boolathana
Boolathana is a genus of spiders in the family Trachycosmidae found in western Australia. There are two species in the genus, Boolathana mainae and Boolathana spiralis. It is named after Boolathana Station, a pastoral lease near where the first specimen was found.

Lobizon
Lobizon is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. It was first described in 2009 by Piacentini & Grismado. , it contains 5 species, all from Argentina.
Macarophaeus
Macarophaeus is a genus of European ground spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 2011. it contains only three species: M. cultior, M. insignis, and M. varius.
Qianlingula
Qianlingula is a genus of Chinese nursery web spiders that was first described by J. X. Zhang, M. S. Zhu & D. X. Song in 2004. it contains only three species, found only in China: Q. bilamellata, Q. jiafu, and Q. turbinata.

Chthonos
Chthonos is a genus of South American ray spiders that was created by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986 because the previous name was preoccupied. Originally placed with the Orb-weaver_spiders under the name Tecmessa, it was transferred to the ray spiders in 1986.

Thaumasia
Thaumasia is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833.

Namaquarachne
Namaquarachne is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold in 1990.
Selkirkiella
Selkirkiella is a genus of South American comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1924. Originally placed with the Araneidae, it was transferred to the comb-footed spiders in 1972.
Neozimiris
Neozimiris is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1903.
Wabarra
Wabarra is a genus of Australian tangled nest spiders in Queensland first described by V. T. Davies in 1996. it contains only two species.
Ciboneya
Ciboneya is a genus of Caribbean cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber & A. Pérez G. in 2001.
Scaphiella
Scaphiella is a genus of spiders in the family Oonopidae. It was first described in 1892 by Simon. , it contains 62 species.

Tasmanicosa
Tasmanicosa is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. It was first described in 1959 by Roewer. , it contains 14 species, all from Australia.

Tigrosa
Tigrosa is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae, found in North America.
Daramulunia
Daramulunia is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae. It was first described in 1967 by Lehtinen. , it contains 2 species.

Triaeris
Triaeris is a genus of goblin spiders erected by Eugène Simon in 1890 for the species Triaeris stenaspis. It was described from females from the Lesser Antilles; specimens were found later in heated greenhouses around Europe. No males of T. stenaspis have ever been found and the species may be parthenogenetic. Its taxonomy is confused, and the number of species that should be placed in the genus is unclear. In 2012, Norman I. Platnick and co-authors described the genus Triaeris as "an enigma wrapped around a mystery". They consider that most species assigned to the genus after Simon in 18

Epeirotypus
Epeirotypus is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1894.
Afrilobus
Afrilobus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, with three species from southern Africa. It was first described by C. E. Griswold & Norman I. Platnick in 1987.
Steriphopus
Steriphopus is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.
Remmius
Remmius is a genus of African huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897.
Katableps
Katableps is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. It was first described in 2011 by Jocqué, Russell-Smith & Alderweireldt. , it contains 3 species from Madagascar.
Therlinya
Therlinya is a genus of Australian sheetweb spiders that was first described by M. R. Gray & H. M. Smith in 2002.

Zimirina
Zimirina is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919. It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018, but was returned to Prodidominae in 2022.
Osornolobus
Osornolobus is a genus of Chilean araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.

Mecolaesthus
Mecolaesthus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Vytfutia
Vytfutia is a genus of Indonesian araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold in 1986. it contains only two species, found only on Borneo and Sumatra: V. bedel and V. pallens.
Ectatosticta
Ectatosticta is a genus of lampshade spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.
Thasyraea
Thasyraea is a genus of spiders in the family Miturgidae. It was first described in 1878 by L. Koch. , it contains 2 Australian species.
Waipoua
genus of arachnids
Syntrechalea
Syntrechalea is a genus of spiders in the family Trechaleidae. It was first described in 1902 by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge. , it contains 12 species.
Bradystichus
Bradystichus is a genus of New Caledonian spiders in the family Dolomedidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.
Kababina
Kababina is a genus of Australian sheetweb spiders that was first described by V. T. Davies in 1995.

Matta
genus of arachnids
Selamia
Selamia is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1873 by Simon. , it contains three species native to the Mediterranean.

Euasteron
Euasteron is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2003 by Baehr. , it contains 17 species, all found in Australia.