| Malaika | |
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| M. longipes | |
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| M. longipes | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Phyxelididae |
| Genus: | Malaika Lehtinen, 1967 [1] |
| Type species | |
| M. longipes (Purcell, 1904) | |
| Species | |
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Malaika is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. [2]
As of September 2025 [update] this genus contains two described species, found only in South Africa: [1]