 The families Micropholcommatidae and Textricellidae were synonymized with the Symphytognathidae by Forster in 1959, but again split from it in 1977.Later they were considered to be only one family, namely Micropholcommatidae, by Platnick & Forster in 1986.They were synonymized with Anapidae by Schütt in 2003 and by Lopa et al.