Mallinella decorata ( Thorell, 1895 ) Thorell, 1895

Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Tavano, Maria & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2011, Notes on Burmese spiders formerly attributed to the genus Storena (Zodariidae, Araneae), Zootaxa 3048, pp. 53-61 : 58-59

Mallinella decorata ( Thorell, 1895) comb. nov.

Storena decorata Thorell. Thorell, 1895: 23 , description of female; Thorell, 1897: 193, description of male Material examined. Syntypes: ♀, BURMA, Tharrawaddy: leg. E. Oates, no date (NHML, examined); Ƥ, leg. E. Oates, no date (NHRS, examined). Other material examined. BURMA, Carin Cheba, Bia-po: 1♂, leg. L. Fea, 1885–1889 (MSNG). Tenassarim, Tagata: 3♂, leg. E. Oates, no date (NHRS). Tenassarim, Mooleyit: 1♂, leg. L. Fea, 1885–1889 (ZMUC). NB: Thagata Juwa is a village on the hills south-west of Mount Mooleyit, in the Dawna- Tenassarim Mountains, at 400–500 m asl.

Taxonomic remarks. Mallinella decorata comb. nov. was originally described on the basis of females collected from Tharrawaddy ( Thorell 1895). Thorell later described a conspecific male of this species in his subsequent publication ( Thorell 1897). Although the males examined were collected from different localities (Tagata by E. Oates; Mooleyit by L. Fea), no significant genitalic differences were detected among them.

Distribution. Along the Burmese coast (Tenassarim: Tagata and Mooleyit) to central Burma (Tharrawaddy, Carin Cheba Bia-po).