Macrobuninae Bonnet, 1957 Macrobunidae is a family of araneomorph spiders.
It was treated as a subfamily of Amaurobiidae until elevated to a full family based on a 2023 molecular phylogenetic study.
The relationships in the study's maximum likelihood summary tree are shown below.
[2] Amaurobiidae Agelenidae Cycloctenidae Aorangia Stiphidiidae Desidae Macrobunidae Hahniidae Cybaeidae Cicurinidae Toxopidae Dictynidae As of February 2025[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera, all formerly placed in the family Amaurobiidae:[1] Members of the 'marronoid' group of spiders are generally relatively small, brownish, and without striking morphological features.
The retrolateral tibial apophysis has a branch which engages with a stridulatory area on the cymbium.