Malkaridae
| Pitted shield spiders | |
|---|---|
| Malkara sp. | |
| Whakamoke paoka in New Zealand | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Malkaridae Davies, 1980 |
| Diversity | |
| 13 genera, 57 species | |
| blue: reported countries (WSC) | |
Malkaridae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Valerie Todd Davies in 1980. In 2017, the family Pararchaeidae was brought into synonymy with Malkaridae.