Malkaridae is a small
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
araneomorph spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s first described by
Valerie Todd Davies in 1980.
In 2017, the family Pararchaeidae was brought into
synonymy with Malkaridae.
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Genera
, the World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepts the following genera:Malkara
Malkara () is a municipality and district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,243 km2 (the largest in Tekirdağ Province), and its population is 50,988 (2022). It is located at 55 km west of Tekirdağ and 190 km from Ist ...
'' 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
* Platnick, N.I & Forster, R.R (1987). On the first American spiders of the subfamily Sternodinae (Araneae, Malkaridae). ''American Museum Novitates'' 2894
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(''Chilenodes'')
Araneomorphae families
Taxa named by Valerie Todd Davies
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