57, see text Lampona is a genus of South Pacific spiders in the family Lamponidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.

[2] At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as "white-tailed spiders".

Both hunt other spiders and have been introduced to New Zealand.

The name is derived from the Middle English laumpe, meaning "light" or "fire".

As of May 2019[update] it contains fifty-seven species native to Australia and New Guinea:[1]