shield spiders | |
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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 |
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]