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Malaika
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Phyxelididae
Genus:	Malaika Lehtinen, 1967
Type species
M. longipes (Purcell, 1904)
Species
M. delicatula Griswold, 1990 – South Africa M. longipes (Purcell, 1904) – South Africa

Malaika is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. As of June 2019 it contains only two species, found only in South Africa: M. delicatula and M. longipes.

See also

• List of Phyxelididae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Malaika Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.

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