Amaurobiidae is a family of three-clawed cribellate or ecribellate spiders found in crevices and hollows or under stones where they build retreats, and are often collected in pitfall traps.

[2] They are fairly common in Tasmania and nearby mainland Australia in cooler rainforest, some in caves.

Australian amaurobiids may be distinguished from the Desidae by the absence of a pretarsal fracture and the presence of a retrocoxal hymen on coxa I.

The lack of research replicability and absence of photographic proof in species and genus diagnosis has resulted in low performance in computer recognition models and citizen science platforms for these genera.

[5] As of February 2025[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera,[6] that are placed in four subfamilies, after Macrobuninae was elevated to a full family:[7] Altellopsinae Lehtinen, 1967: Amaurobiinae Thorell, 1869: Arctobiinae Leech, 1972: Ovtchinnikoviinae Marusik, Kovblyuk, & Ponomarev, 2010: