Physoglenidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1928 as a subfamily of Pholcidae.

[1] It was later moved to Synotaxidae[2] until a study in 2016 showed that they formed a distinct clade.

[3] As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[4]