World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated from subfamily of Amaurobiidae and placed as sister group of Titanoecidae by Griswold et al., 1999: 59.

Gen. Malaika Lehtinen, 1967 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02064

type Auximus longipes Purcell, 1904; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Amaurobiidae to the Phyxelididae by Griswold et al., 1999: 59.

In synonymy:

Malaika grindleyi (Lawrence, 1964, T from Phyxelida) = Malaika longipes (Purcell, 1904) (Griswold, 1990: 119)

Malaika delicatula Griswold, 1990 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023124

Malaika delicatula Griswold, 1990: 122, f. 11a, 63a-e (Dmf) Original description

Malaika delicatula Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021t: 8, 5 f. (mf)

Malaika longipes (Purcell, 1904) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023125 TYPE SPECIES

Auximus longipes Purcell, 1904: 132, pl. 10, f. 3 (Dmf) Original description

Haemilla grindleyi Lawrence, 1964: 58, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064823]

Malaika longipes Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 390-391 (mf, T from Auximus)

Phyxelida grindleyi Brignoli, 1983c: 528

Malaika longipes Griswold, 1990: 118, f. 3b, 4b, 6d, 15f, 16d, 59a-b, 60a-f, 61a-d, 62a-e, 68c (mf, S of Phyxelida grindleyi)

Malaika longipes Bosselaers, 2018a: 12, f. left, right (A-D) (f)

Malaika longipes Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021t: 9, 8 f. (mf)