Cheiracanthiidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Vladimir Wagner in 1887.

[1] The largest genus currently recognized as belonging to this family is Cheiracanthium, which has previously been placed in both the Clubionidae and the Miturgidae.

[3] The group was originally described as the subfamily Eutichurinae of the family Miturgidae by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.

An analysis by Martín J. Ramírez in 2014 suggested that it was better considered as a separate family.

[4] As of December 2021[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]