The Dictynoidea or dictynoids are a group of araneomorph spiders that have been treated as a superfamily.
Phylogenetic studies in the 21st century have failed to confirm the monophyly of the dictynoids as originally defined.
[1] In 1991, Coddington and Levi included "at least" Desidae, Dictynidae, Cybaeidae, Argyronetidae (now included in Cybaeidae), Hahniidae and Neolanidae (now Stiphidiidae) in Dictynoidea, which in their cladistic hypothesis for the phylogeny of the araneomorphs was presented as a clade within the RTA clade.
[2] In Jonathan A. Coddington's 2005 summary of the phylogeny and classification of spiders, Dictynoidea has disappeared.
Hahniidae Dictynidae Cybaeidae Agelenidae Desidae Amphinectidae (now Desidae) Stiphidiidae A 2017 study also did not support the Dictynoidea, but placed the families previously included in this group in a more widely defined "marronoid clade", comprising Amaurobiidae, Agelenidae, Cybaeidae, Cycloctenidae, Desidae, Dictynidae, Hahniidae, Stiphidiidae and Toxopidae.