Malagiella vohiparara

Ubick, Darrell & Griswold, Charles E., 2011, The Malagasy Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Malagiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (356), pp. 1-86 : 80

Malagiella vohiparara species group

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this group differ from those of the ranomafana group in being smaller, light brown species, with reduced carapace reticulation (figs. 117–124). Eyes are typically smaller, although somewhat larger in M. nikina (figs. 394, 398), with eye area width usually less than 0.4 cephalon width (figs. 120, 124) and eye area length about 0.5 clypeus length in males (figs. 117, 119, 347) or subequal to greater than clypeus length in females (figs. 121, 123, 360). Male abdomen with dorsal and ventral scutes narrow (figs. 145, 352), with contact zone rounded (figs. 142–146). Both males and females differ from the somatically similar toliara group in lacking lateral spines on hind tibiae and metatarsi and from the ranomafana group in having the tibia IV with a pair of ventroapical spines (fig. 469).

SPECIES INCLUDED: Malagiella ambalavo , M. goodmani , M. nikina , M. ranavalona , and M. vohiparara .