Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940.

[2] For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct.

[3] A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 led to the family being revived.

[4] As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]

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