All members of this family occur in New Zealand and Australia except for Asmea. They build a horizontal sheet-like web under rocks, hence the name "sheetweb spiders".
Stiphidiidae, also called sheetweb spiders, is a family of 	araneomorph spiders first described in 1917. Most species are medium size (Stiphidion facetum is about  long) and speckled brown with long legs.