Malagiella goodmani, Ubick & Griswold, 2011

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 : 83

Malagiella goodmani , new species Figures 411–428 , 487 ; maps 1, 2, 4; table 1

TYPE: Female holotype from 15 km NW Eminiminy, 24 ° 34.29S, 46 ° 43.99E, 1500 m, Toliara Province, Madagascar (17–27 Nov 1995, S. Goodman), deposited in FMNH ( FMNH- INS 0000 033 748, PBI _OON 03920).

ETYMOLOGY: This species is named after Steve Goodman, collector of the species, in honor of his work on the Malagasy biota.

DIAGNOSIS: This species may be distinguished from others in the group by the short and straight receptaculum, with W/L about 0.3 (figs. 423–428).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 10247): Total length 1.48 (1.40–1.48), carapace length 0.64 (0.63– 0.64), width 0.54 (0.52–0.54), N 5 2. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace anteriorly narrowed to 0.49 times its maximum width (fig. 412), surface and sides of elevated portion of pars cephalica finely reticulate (figs. 412, 413, 416, 417). Clypeus subequal to eye area length (fig. 413). Eyes well developed, medium sized; eye row width 0.45 carapace width; length 1.1 clypeus length (figs. 412, 413, 416). ABDOMEN: Pedicel tube short (fig. 419), scutum dorsal extension about 0.25 pedicel diameter (fig. 418). Dorsal scutum covering about 0.7 abdomen length, 0.45 abdomen width (fig. 412). GENITA- LIA: Postepigastric scutum weakly sclerotized, receptaculum broad and straight (figs. 423–428).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MADA- GASCAR: Toliara Province: R.N.I. d’Andohahela, parcel 1, 8 km NW Eminiminy, 24 ° 37.69S, 46 ° 45.99E, 440 m, 19–28 Oct

1995 (S. Goodman, FMNH-INS 0000 033 745, PBI_OON 10247), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from R.N.I. d’Andohahela, Madagascar.

Figures

Figs. 411–420. Malagiella goodmani, new species, female (PBI_OON 10247). 411. Habitus, ventral view. 412. Same, dorsal view. 413. Same, lateral view. Scale bar 5 1 mm. 414. Abdomen, ventral view. 415. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 416. Same, anterior view. 417. Same, posterior view. 418. Abdomen, anterior view. 419. Same, lateral view. 420. Same, posterior view.

Figs. 421–428. Malagiella goodmani, new species, female variation (PBI_OON numbers on figs.). 421, 422. Abdomen, ventral view. 423, 424. Epigynal region, ventral view. 425. Same, posterior view. 426. Same, lateral view. 427. Epigynal area cleared, ventral view. 428. Same, lateral view, showing copulatory opening (arrow) and apodeme (dash).

Fig. 487. Size variation in Malagiella measured as a function of carapace length to carapace width. Plot is based on measurements of 26 male specimens (‘‘x’’) and 30 female specimens (‘‘o’’). Blue lines enclose male values for a given species and red lines female values; disjunct conspecific readings are connected by straight lines. Green dotted lines enclose the three species groups. Brown dashed lines refer to the size of female DS, with the large dashes (upper right) enclosing species with the largest scutes and small dashes (lower left) those with the smallest. Abbreviations for species names: amba 5 M.ambalavo, andr 5 M. andringitra, fish 5 M. fisheri, good 5 M. goodmani, niki 5 M. nikina, rana 5 M. ranavalona, rano 5 M. ranomafana, toli 5 M. toliara, valt 5 M. valterova, vohi 5 M. vohiparara.