World Spider Catalog

Malkaridae Davies, 1980

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated from a subfamily of Araneidae and placed as the sister group of Mimetidae (Wunderlich, 1986: 124); considered a senior synonym of Sternodidae Moran, 1986: 88 (Platnick & Forster, 1987: 8); considered a subfamily of Mimetidae by Wunderlich, 2004i: 1258; see Agnarsson, 2004: 466 on possible relationships of some genera to the Theridiidae; synonymy of the type genus Malkara with Perissopmeros (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; even if this synonymy would be proved the family name Malkaridae stays valid after ICZN article 40.1; Pararchaeidae Forster & Platnick, 1984: 65 considered a subfamily of Archaeidae by Wunderlich, 1986 and Eskov, 1987c, of Mimetidae by Wunderlich, 2004i: 1257, validated by Rix, 2006 and synonymzed with Malkaridae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 243, re-elevation to family level by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); the family consists of four subfamilies (Hormiga & Scharff, 2020): Malkarinae (genus Malkara), Pararchaeinae Forster & Platnick, 1984: 65 (genera Anarchaea, Flavarchaea, Forstrarchaea, Nanarchaea, Ozarchaea, Pararchaea, Westrarchaea), Sternoidinae Harvey, 2002a: 456 = Sternodidae Moran, 1986: 88 (genera Carathea, Chilenodes, Perissopmeros) and Tingotinginae Hormiga & Scharff, 2020: 359 (genera Tingotingo, Whakamoke).

Gen. Ozarchaea Rix, 2006 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03597

N.B.: transferred from the Pararchaeidae to the Malkaridae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 243.

Ozarchaea bodalla Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039367

Ozarchaea bodalla Rix, 2006: 227, f. 112 (Df) Original description

Ozarchaea bondi Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039368

Ozarchaea bondi Rix, 2006: 236, f. 122 (Df) Original description

Ozarchaea daviesae Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039369

Ozarchaea daviesae Rix, 2006: 237, f. 91-94, 121 (Dmf) Original description

Ozarchaea forsteri Rix, 2006 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039370

Ozarchaea forsteri Rix, 2006: 228, f. 8, 113 (Df) Original description

Ozarchaea harveyi Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039371

Ozarchaea harveyi Rix, 2006: 229, f. 10, 73-76, 115 (Dmf) Original description

Ozarchaea janineae Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039372

Ozarchaea janineae Rix, 2006: 240, f. 99-102, 118 (Dmf) Original description

Ozarchaea ornata (Hickman, 1969) | | Australia (Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005462

Pararchaea ornata Hickman, 1969: 7, f. 21-24 (Df) Original description

Pararchaea ornata Rix, 2005: 144, f. 1 (Dm)

Ozarchaea ornata Rix, 2006: 231, f. 11, 77-80, 114 (mf, T from Pararchaea)

Ozarchaea platnicki Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039373

Ozarchaea platnicki Rix, 2006: 231, f, 13, 116 (Df) Original description

Ozarchaea saxicola (Hickman, 1969) | | Australia (Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005464

Pararchaea saxicola Hickman, 1969: 5, f. 16-20 (Dmf) Original description

Pararchaea saxicola Rix, 2005: 146, f. 2, 6, 11 (f)

Ozarchaea saxicola Rix, 2006: 238, f. 120 (f, T from Pararchaea)

Ozarchaea spurgeon Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039374

Ozarchaea spurgeon Rix, 2006: 242, f. 14, 103-106 (Dm) Original description

Ozarchaea stradbroke Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039375

Ozarchaea stradbroke Rix, 2006: 243, f. 117 (Df) Original description

Ozarchaea valida Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039376

Ozarchaea valida Rix, 2006: 232, f. 12, 81-84 (Dm) Original description

Ozarchaea waldockae Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039377

Ozarchaea waldockae Rix, 2006: 239, f. 95-98 (Dm) Original description

Ozarchaea werrikimbe Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039378

Ozarchaea werrikimbe Rix, 2006: 233, f. 9, 85-88 (Dm) Original description

Ozarchaea westraliensis Rix, 2006 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039379

Ozarchaea westraliensis Rix, 2006: 243, f. 107-110, 119 (Dmf) Original description

Ozarchaea wiangarie Rix, 2006 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039380

Ozarchaea wiangarie Rix, 2006: 235, f. 89-90, 111 (Dm) Original description