Lathys is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884. It is a replacement name for "Lethia" Menge, 1869 because that name was already in use as a synonym for a genus of moths.
Species
it contains fifty-two species: L. adunca Liu, 2018 – China L. affinis (Blackwall, 1862) – Madeira, Portugal? L. alberta Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Canada, Russia (South Siberia to Far East) L. albida Gertsch, 1946 – USA L. ankaraensis Özkütük, Marusik, Elverici & Kunt, 2016 – Turkey L. annulata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Korea, Japan L. bin Marusik & Logunov, 1991 – Russia (Kurile Is.) L. borealis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China L. brevitibialis Denis, 1956 – Morocco L. cambridgei (Simon, 1874) – Israel L. changtunesis Hu, 2001 – China L. chishuiensis Zhang, Yang & Zhang, 2009 – China L. coralynae Gertsch & Davis, 1942 – Mexico L. delicatula (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA L. deltoidea Liu, 2018 – China L. dentichelis (Simon, 1883) – Azores, Canary Is. L. dihamata Paik, 1979 – Korea, Japan L. dixiana Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – USA L. fibulata Liu, 2018 – China L. foxi (Marx, 1891) – USA L. heterophthalma Kulczyński, 1891 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia) L. huangyangjieensis Liu, 2018 – China L. humilis (Blackwall, 1855) (type) – Europe to Caucasus and Iran Lathys h. meridionalis (Simon, 1874) – Spain, France (mainland, Corsica), North Africa L. immaculata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) – USA L. inaffecta Li, 2017 – China L. insulana Ono, 2003 – Japan L. jubata (Denis, 1947) – France L. lehtineni Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Omelko, 2014 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe) L. lepida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1909 – Spain L. lutulenta Simon, 1914 – France L. maculina Gertsch, 1946 – USA L. maculosa (Karsch, 1879) – Korea, Japan L. mallorcensis Lissner, 2018 – Spain (Majorca) L. maura (Simon, 1911) – Algeria L. narbonensis (Simon, 1876) – France, Italy L. pallida (Marx, 1891) – USA, Canada L. pygmaea Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is. L. sexoculata Seo & Sohn, 1984 – Korea, Japan L. sexpustulata (Simon, 1878) – France, Morocco L. simplicior (Dalmas, 1916) – Algeria L. sindi (Caporiacco, 1934) – Karakorum L. spasskyi Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1969 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan L. spiralis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China L. stigmatisata (Menge, 1869) – Europe, Turkey L. subalberta Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China L. subhumilis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China L. subviridis Denis, 1937 – Algeria L. sylvania Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA L. teideensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is. L. truncata Danilov, 1994 – Russia (Central Asia, South Siberia), Kazakhstan L. zhanfengi Liu, 2018 – China