52, see text Lathys is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.

[3] It is a replacement name for "Lethia" Menge, 1869 because that name was already in use as a synonym for a genus of moths.

[4] As of May 2019[update] it contains fifty-two species:[1]