Mallinella insolita, Dankittipakul & Jocqué & Singtripop, 2012

Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Jocqué, Rudy & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2012, Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae) 3369, Zootaxa 3369 (1), pp. 1-327 : 235-237

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254361
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/933EDA4C-B9CF-FF71-CBC2-FC39FC0E3A1C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Mallinella insolita
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Mallinella insolita View in CoL sp. nov.

(Figs 1057, 1067–1070, 1077–1079)

Material examined. Holotype: ♀, THAILAND, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province: Sam Roi Yod NP, leg. P.J. Schwendinger ( MHNG) . Paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype. THAILAND, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province: Pranburi , Sam Roi Yod NP, litter sample, 31 December 1988, leg. C.L. and P.R. Deeleman ( RMHN) .

Diagnosis. Mallinella insolita sp. nov. can be easily recognized by the bi-colored carapace (Fig. 1057): its dark brown pars cephalica and orange pars thoracica are clearly contrasting. The female genitalia are slightly different from those of M. oculobella sp. nov. in the absence of genital orifices on the epigynal plate.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective (insolitus = strange) alluding to the unusual pattern of the carapace.

Description. Female (holotype). Total length 7.50; prosoma 4.22 long, 3.40 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.26, ALE 0.18, PME 0.18, PLE 0.18, AME–AME 0.28, AME–ALE 0.36, PME–PME 0.20, PME–PLE 0.42; MOQ: 0.60 long, 0.42 anterior width, 0.38 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 16.50 (3.96, 5.18, 4.14, 3.22), II 13.68 (3.44, 4.30, 3.44, 2.48), III 13.76 (3.62, 4.14, 3.70, 2.30), IV 19.02 (4.60, 5.60, 5.94, 2.84).

Coloration (Fig. 1057). Carapace bi-colored: pars cephalica dark brown, pars thoracica orange. Legs yellowish, distally darker than proximal parts. Opisthosoma dark sepia, background mottled with numerous minute pale round spots. Dorsum of opisthosoma with a pair of round spots, connected medially, followed by three chevrons and transverse bands.

Genitalia (Figs 1067–1070, 1077–1079). Epigynal plate represented by irregular transverse band. Lateral lobes more or less parallel. Spermathecae oblong, short and stout, diverging, ventrally slightly swollen, internally with simple ducts.

Male. Unknown.

Natural history. The female holotype was collected by sifting litter and decomposed organic material in limestone forests.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in southern Thailand.