Mallinella indica ( Tikader & Patel, 1975 ) 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 : 17-20

Mallinella indica ( Tikader & Patel, 1975) comb. nov.

Figs 10–11

Storena indica Tikader & Patel, 1975: 137 , figs 1–6.

Storena indica – Patel & Reddy 1989: 223.

Type material

Holotype

INDIA • ♀; Gujarat, Panch Mahals (= Panchmahals), Pavagadh ; 22°27′43.7″ N, 73°31′26.6″ E; 433 m a.s.l.; 10 Sep. 1972; B.H. Patel leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).

Paratype

INDIA • ♀; Gujarat, Kheda (= Kaira), Vallabh Vidyanagar ; 22°32′48.0″ N, 72°55′45.9″ E; 44 m a.s.l.; 26 Jul. 1971; B.H. Patel leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified) .

Allotype

INDIA • ♂; same collection data as for paratype; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified ).

Supplementary description

Male (allotype (5356/18); Fig. 10C )

Colour in alcohol: carapace, eye region, clypeus, chelicerae, fangs, chilum, sternum, endites, labium dark reddish-brown; leg and palp segments pale yellowish; dorsal opisthosoma black, with paired medio-lateral creamy-white blotches. Body length 6.54. Carapace length 3.45, width 2.47. Opisthosoma length 3.09, width 2.20. Eye diameters: ALE 0.19. AME 0.21. PLE 0.20. PME 0.18. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.11. ALE–PLE 0.03. AME–AME 0.13. AME–PME 0.15. PME–PLE 0.25. PME–PME 0.15. Chelicerae length 1.14. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.71, at AMEs 0.92. Measurements of pedipalp and legs. Pedipalp 4.41 [1.49, 0.55, 0.36, 2.01], I (right) 11.25 [2.83, 1.21, 2.25, 2.91, 2.05], II 10.17 [2.66, 1.02, 2.12, 2.53, 1.84], III 9.74 [2.48, 1.03, 1.84, 2.73, 1.66], IV 12.60 [2.95, 0.90, 2.59, 3.98, 2.18]. Leg formula: 4123. Pedipalp as in Fig. 11 C–E.

Female (holotype (5354/18); Fig. 10A )

Like male except the following: body length 7.69. Carapace length 3.63, width 2.37. Opisthosoma length 4.06, width 3.22. Eye diameters: ALE 0.19. AME 0.20. PLE 0.19. PME 0.17. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.12. ALE–PLE 0.06. AME–AME 0.19. AME–PME 0.19. PME–PLE 0.35. PME–PME 0.17. Chelicerae length 1.35. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.80, at AMEs 1.02. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp 3.44 [1.20, 0.61, 0.64, 0.99], I 9.63 [2.41, 0.99, 2.00, 2.34, 1.89], II 9.07 [2.40, 1.02, 1.87, 2.33, 1.45], III (right) 9.60 [2.42, 1.08, 1.80, 2.67, 1.63], IV (right) 11.85 [2.88, 0.97, 2.35, 3.99, 1.66]. Leg formula: 4132. Epigynum as in Fig. 10D .

Measurements of paratype female ( Fig. 10B ): body length 7.95. Carapace length 4.17, width 2.60. Opisthosoma length 3.78, width 2.80. Genitalia as in Fig. 11 A–B.

Justification of the transfer

Tikader & Patel (1975) described this species on the basis of male and female specimens collected in Gujarat. Detailed study of the types of this species indicates that it has diagnostic features of Mallinella

as illustrated in Dankittipakul et al. (2012). Based on this observation, we propose to transfer S. indica to Mallinella .

Remarks

The ZSI collection has three glass tubes for this species. First tube labeled as “ holotype ” (5354/18) contains one female specimen in good condition, with intact genitalia. Second tube labeled as “ paratype ” (5355/18) contains one female specimen in good condition, with detached opisthosoma. Third tube labeled as “ allotype ” (5356/18) contains one male specimen in good condition. The same tube contains another label mentioning that the collecting locality of holotype, paratype and allotype as Pavagadh with register number 5354/18.

Figures

Fig. 10. Mallinella indica (Tikader & Patel, 1975) comb. nov., ♂♀, holotype, paratype and allotype of Storena indica Tikader & Patel, 1975. A, D, E. Holotype, ♀ (NZC-ZSI-5354/18). A. Habitus, dorsal view. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Type label. B, F. Paratype, ♀ (NZC-ZSI-5355/18). B. Habitus, dorsal view. F. Type label. C, G. Allotype, ♂ (NZC-ZSI-5356/18). C. Habitus, dorsal view. G. Type label. H. Original illustrations of S. indica adapted from Tikader & Patel (1975). Scale bars: A–C = 2 mm; D = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 11. Mallinella indica (Tikader & Patel, 1975) comb. nov., ♂♀, paratype and allotype of Storena indica Tikader & Patel, 1975. A–B. Genitalia of paratype, ♀ (NZC-ZSI-5355/18). A. Epigynum, ventral view. B. Vulva, dorsal view. C–E. Left pedipalp of allotype, ♂ (NZC-ZSI-5356/18). C. Prolateral view. D. Ventral view. E. Retrolateral view. Scale bars: A–B = 0.2 mm; C–E = 0.5 mm.