Malaika (spider)

Malaika is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only two species, found only in South Africa: M. delicatula and M. longipes.[1]

Malaika
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phyxelididae
Genus: Malaika
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
M. longipes
(Purcell, 1904)
Species
  • M. delicatula Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • M. longipes (Purcell, 1904) – South Africa

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Malaika Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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