Genus Laufeia Simon, 1889

Description. Small spiders. Body brown or dark brown, without distinctive large markings or stripes; carapace and abdomen covered with light colored scales. Male usually with a slightly sclerotized area on the dorsal abdomen. Chelicera usually with a bicuspid tooth on retromargin. Male palp with relatively wide retrolateral sperm duct loop; embolus long or short; embolic disc large or relatively small; proximal tegular lobe present. Epigynal window sometimes indistinct. Spermatheca of various shapes.

Remarks. Laufeia, Orcevia and Junxattus share similar somatic characters such as body form, color and cheliceral teeth pattern, but show considerate difference in genital structure (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold 2012). Unpublished molecular data suggest they fall into one clade.

Two species previously described as Laufeia are transferred to other genera in this paper: Laufeia liujiapingensis Yang & Tang, 1997 to Chinophrys; Laufeia scutigera Żabka, 1985 to Foliabitus . Two new species from China and Malaysia are described here.