Flavarchaea

Flavarchaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Malkaridae
Genus:	Flavarchaea Rix, 2006 [1]
Type species
F. lulu (Rix, 2005)
Species
8, see text

Flavarchaea is a genus of South Pacific shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] it contains eight species, found only in Australia and on New Caledonia: ^[1]

• Flavarchaea anzac Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Flavarchaea badja Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
• Flavarchaea barmah Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Flavarchaea hickmani (Rix, 2005) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Flavarchaea humboldti Rix & Harvey, 2010 – New Caledonia
• Flavarchaea lofty Rix, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
• Flavarchaea lulu (Rix, 2005) (type) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Flavarchaea stirlingensis Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)

See also

• List of Malkaridae species

References

1. "Gen. Flavarchaea Rix, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (2): 203–254. doi:10.1071/IS05032.