Gnaphosoidea

The Gnaphosoidea or gnaphosoids are a superfamily of araneomorph spiders with seven families. A 2014 study did not find the group to be monophyletic.

Phylogeny

Gnaphosoidea has been circumscribed to contain the following families:

Gnaphosoidea has been placed in the Dionycha clade, itself part of the RTA clade:
The Prodidomidae, Lamponidae and Gnaphosidae have been considered "higher gnaphosoids", sharing anterior lateral spinnerets consisting of only a single "joint" ; the "lower gnaphosoids" retain a distal article that is represented by an entire ring of hardened cuticle. One hypothesis for the internal phylogeny of the gnaphosoids, defined in this way, is:
A 2014 study of dionychan spiders did not recover Gnaphosoidea as a monophyletic group, instead finding "gnaphosoid" families other than Gnaphosidae and Prodidomidae to be part of a larger clade, mixed in with three other dionychan families, Liocranidae, Trachelidae and Phrurolithidae. Forcing Gnaphosoidea to be monophyletic produced results described as "quite suboptimal".