Genus Malarina Davies, 2000

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• Malarina Davies, V.T. in Davies, V.T. & Lambkin, C.L. 2000. Malarina, a new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Kababininae) from the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45: 273-283 [Date published 30 June] [273-274].

  Type species:

   Malarina monteithi Davies, 2000 by original designation.

Introduction

The cribellate genus Malarina comprises four species from rainforests of the wet tropics south of Cairns in northern Queensland. Little is known of the spiders’ biology, except they appear to be litter dwellers. Malarina is one of four genera comprising the subfamily Kababininae (Davies 1999). Although unplaced at the family level by Davies and Lambkin (2000), Malarina was listed in the Amphinectidae until 2008, along with other genera in the clade. The subfamily was transferred to Stiphidiidae by Gray and Smith (2008).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Davies, V.T. 1999. Carbinea, a new spider genus from north Queensland, Australia (Araneae, Amaurobioidea, Kababininae). Journal of Arachnology 27: 25-36

Davies, V.T. & Lambkin, C.L. 2000. Malarina, a new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Kababininae) from the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45: 273-283

Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2008. A new subfamily of spiders with grate-shaped tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae). Records of the Australian Museum 60: 13-44

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