Mallinella albomaculata ( Bosmans & Hillyard, 1990 )

Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Jocqué, Rudy & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2010, Five new Mallinella species from the Sundaland of Indonesia (Araneae, Zodariidae), Zootaxa 2636, pp. 21-36 : 22-23

Mallinella albomaculata ( Bosmans & Hillyard, 1990)

Figs 1–2 , 18–20

Langbiana albomaculata Bosmans & Hillyard, 1990: 154 , figs 39-43; description of male and female.

Types: 13, 1♀, examined, INDONESIA, Sulawesi Utara, Tengkoko Batuangis, costal forest litter, November, 1985, leg. P. Hillyard [NHML, BM 1989.6.5.2, 3]. NB: Original label citing species name as Langbiana albovittata .

New material: 1♀, INDONESIA, Borneo, East Kalimantan Province, Berua District, near Kampung Suaran, ca. 40 km south of Tanjungredeb (1º59'42''S, 117º36'03''E), 50 m, primary forest on limestone, 1.x.2008, leg. P.J. Schwendinger [ MHNG, IND- 08/11].

Remarks: Mallinella albomaculata can be easily recognized by the dorsal pattern of the opisthosoma ( Fig. 1 ) with four pairs of pale spots running longitudinally (both the anterior pairs are slightly wider and the spots are further apart than in the posterior ones), followed by transverse posterior median chevrons, basolaterally with an oblique row of three pale spots on each flank, by the bicoloured legs of which the coxa, trochanter and the proximal half of the femur are whitish ( Fig. 1 ). Females are characterized by ( Figs 2 , 18– 20 ): 1) the deep anterior-median incision on the V-shaped median plate of the epigyne, the epigyne distinctly wider anteriorly, its posterior margin being approximately 0.5 times shorter than the anterior one, the blunt lateral lobes of the epigyne extending inwards, and the short, triangular IDs carrying spermathecae with elevated small median mound ( Fig. 19 ).

Natural history: The specimen examined was collected by sifting decomposing leaf and organic litter in primary evergreen forests at the foot of limestone hills.

Distribution: Sulawesi and Borneo (new record), Indonesia ( Fig. 51 ).

Figures

FIGURE 51. Records of Mallinella species treated in the present study.

FIGURES 1 – 4. Mallinella albomaculata, new material from Borneo (1 – 2). M. abdita sp. nov., holotype (3) and paratype (4). Habitus, dorsal (1, 3 – 4). Epigyne, ventral (2). Scale bar = 1.0 mm (for 1, 3 – 4).

FIGURES 18 – 24. Mallinella albomaculata, new material from Borneo (18 – 20). M. insulana sp. nov., holotype (21 – 24). Spermatheca, anrterior (18), contra-lateral (19), dorsal (20). Male palp, ventral (21). TA, prolateral (23), retrolateral (22). Apex of embolus, prolateral (24). Scale bar = 0.1 mm (18 – 21).