 In 1984, Raymond R. Forster and Norman I. Platnick proposed that some groups previously considered araneoid actually belonged in the distantly related Palpimanoidea, including the then families Holarchaeidae, Micropholcommatidae, Mimetidae and Pararchaeidae.Subsequent phylogenetic studies have rejected this proposal, firmly placing them in Araneoidea.Studies published in 2012 and 2013, using morphological, molecular and fossil evidence, agreed that Palpimanoidea is monophyletic.