Maloides

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Maloides
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Maloides
Species:
M. cavernicola
Binomial name
Maloides cavernicola
Forster & Wilton, 1989[1]

Maloides is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders containing the single species, Maloides cavernicola. It was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989,[2] and has only been found in New Zealand.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Maloides Forster & Wilton, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981.


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