Mallinella dibangensis ( Biswas & Biswas, 2006 ) Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian, 2020

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2020, A review of the Indian species formerly assigned to the genus Storena Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with the description of a new genus, European Journal of Taxonomy 707, pp. 1-23 : 16-17

Mallinella dibangensis ( Biswas & Biswas, 2006) comb. nov.

Storena dibangensis Biswas & Biswas, 2006: 494 , figs 1–3.

Type material

Holotype (not examined)

INDIA • ♀; Arunachal Pradesh, Dibang Valley, 3 km from Mayodia; 28°13′59.7″ N, 95°54′26.8″ E; 2441 m a.s.l.; 16 Sep. 1991; T.K. Pal and Party leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (5535/18). (The original illustrations of vulva are diagnostic and were used for comparison.)

Male

Unknown.

Justification of the transfer

This species was described on the basis of one female specimen collected in Arunachal Pradesh. Although we did not examine the type of this species, the internal female genitalia illustrated for this species ( Biswas & Biswas 2006: fig. 3) clearly matches with that of Mallinella Strand, 1906 in its general appearance. Based on this observation, we propose to transfer S. dibangensis to Mallinella . The vulva illustrated for this species suggests a possible synonymy of this species with Mallinella redimita (Simon, 1905) ; however, confirmation requires the re-examination of type or topotype materials of M. dibangensis comb. nov.

Remarks

We were unable to trace out the type of S. dibangensis in the arachnid collection of ZSI. It may either be lost or misplaced elsewhere in the collection.