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]
| Maloides | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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]
| |
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Maloides Forster & Wilton, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ 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". Journal of Arid Environments. 17 (3): 358. Bibcode:1989JArEn..17..358P. doi:10.1016/S0140-1963(18)30893-0.