It has a clearly Gondwanan distribution, with species found in Australia, South Africa and South America; they probably represent relicts of that time.

[1] Some species of Enantiobuninae have blue pigmentation, which is rather unusual in harvestmen.

[1] The former family "Monoscutidae" has recently been subsumed within the subfamily Enantiobuninae.

[2] The family name is a contraction of Ancient Greek neo "new" and Latin Opilio, a genus of harvestman.

According to the Catalogue of Life, Neopilionidae includes three subfamilies, which contain a total of 19 genera and 78 species.