• Daviesa Koçak, A.Ö. & Kemal, M. 2008. New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida. Miscellaneous Papers, Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara 139-140: 1-5 [2] [replacement name for Malala, preoccupied in Hemiptera by Malala Distant, 1910].

  Type species:

   Malala lubinae Davies, 1993 (= Daviesa lubinae) by original designation.
• Malala Davies, V.T. 1993. A new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea) from rainforests of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33(2): 483-489 [483] [junior homonym of Malala Distant, 1910 (Hemiptera)].

  Type species:

   Malala lubinae Davies, 1993 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Malala gallonae Davies, V.T. 1993. A new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea) from rainforests of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33(2): 483-489 [487].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S20357 ♀ (1054 m, 17.x - 24.x..1981), Bellenden Ker Range, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM S20358 - S20365 4 ♀, 4 ♂, various locations, all in northeast QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Bellenden Ker Range, south of Cairns, QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Malala lubinae Davies, V.T. 1993. A new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea) from rainforests of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33(2): 483-489 [484].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S20349 ♀ (Nagarigoon [possibly Nagarigoon Falls], 8.iv.1976, V.E. Davies, N. Hall), Lamington National Park, southeastern QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM S20350 - S20356 3 ♂ & 12 ♀, various locations.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lamington National Park, southeast corner of QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes