Editing Tooth Cave spider (section)

==Taxonomy==
The Tooth Cave spider was first described in 1974 by [[Willis J. Gertsch]], as ''Leptoneta myopica''.<ref name=WSC_s14036/> At the time it was only known from Tooth Cave in [[Travis County, Texas]], 15 miles northwest of [[Austin, Texas|Austin]]. The specific name ''myopica'' is from the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''myopia'', "nearsighted".<ref name=Gert74/> In 1977, [[Paolo Marcello Brignoli|Paolo Brignoli]] transferred the species to the genus ''[[Neoleptoneta]]''.<ref name=WSC_s14036/> A 2011 [[Phylogenetics|phylogenetic]] study of ''Neoleptoneta'' and other North American genera in the family [[Leptonetidae]] showed that ''Neoleptoneta'' was not [[Monophyly|monophyletic]]. Several new genera were erected, including ''[[Tayshaneta]]'', to which the Tooth Cave spider was transferred, as ''Tayshaneta myopica''.<ref name=LedfPaquCokeCamp11/>