Malkaridae

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]

shield spiders
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

Genera

Main article: List of Malkaridae species

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

1. Davies, V. T. (1980). "Malkara loricata, a new spider (Araneidae: Malkarinae) from Australia". Proceedings, 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress Wien 1980. pp. 377–382.
2. "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)