Family DESIDAE Pocock, 1895
Introduction
Presently, this is a very heterogenus group including the marine or intertidal spider genus Desis, a genus with a very little modified morphology but also includes the genera Laestrygones and Toxops which have very strongly modified eyes. All desids have 3 claws, may be cribellate or not, and may have two more or less slightly curved rows or the posterior row strongly recurved.
Diagnosis
Desids are one of the most heterogeneous spider families, but Toxops and Laestrygones are here returned to the Toxopidae making the family more uniform. Three subfamilies, Ixeuticinae, Desinae, and Matachiinae, and the unplaced Pitonga are here recognised.