Family MALKARIDAE Davies, 1980

Museums

Regional Maps

• Malkaridae Davies, V.T. 1980. Malkara loricata, a new spider (Araneidae: Malkarinae) from Australia. pp. 377-382 in Gruber, J. (ed.). Verhandlungen 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress abgehalten ander Universitä für Bodenkultur Wien, 7–12 Juli, 1980. Vienna : H. Ergemann 506 pp.
• Pararchaeidae Forster & Platnick, 1984.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dimitrov, D., Benavides, L.R., Arnedo, M.A., Giribet, G., Griswold, C.E., Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. 2017. Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). Cladistics 33: 221-250

Introduction

Malkarines were originally placed as a subfamily of the Araneidae (Davies 1980), but later were elevated to family level to include the Malkarinae and the Sternoidinae (see Platnick & Forster 1987). They are small, ornate litter-dwelling spiders.

Diagnosis

Malkarids are araneoids that possess deep alveoli on the carapace, the pedicel is entirely sclerotised and the spinnerets encircled by a sclerotised ring.

History of changes