Malkaridae
Appearance
(Redirected from List of Pararchaeidae species)
shield spiders | |
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Malkara sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Malkaridae Davies, 1980 |
Diversity | |
11 genera, 46 species |
Malkaridae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Valerie Todd Davies in 1980.[1] In 2017, the family Pararchaeidae was brought into synonymy with Malkaridae.[2]
Genera
[edit]As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[2]
- Anarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia
- Carathea Moran, 1986 — Australia
- Chilenodes Platnick & Forster, 1987 — Chile, Argentina
- Flavarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia
- Forstrarchaea Rix, 2006 — New Zealand
- Malkara Davies, 1980 — Australia
- Nanarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia
- Ozarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia, New Zealand
- Pararchaea Forster, 1955 — New Zealand
- Perissopmeros Butler, 1932 — Australia
- Westrarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia
- Whakamoke Hormiga & Scharff, 2020 — New Zealand
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Malkaridae.
- ^ Davies, V. T. (1980). "Malkara loricata, a new spider (Araneidae: Malkarinae) from Australia". Proceedings, 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress Wien 1980. pp. 377–382.
- ^ a b "Family: Malkaridae Davies, 1980". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
- Platnick, N.I & Forster, R.R (1987). On the first American spiders of the subfamily Sternodinae (Araneae, Malkaridae). American Museum Novitates 2894. PDF 5Mb (Abstract) (Chilenodes)