Malagiella ranomafana, 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 : 59

Malagiella ranomafana species group

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this group are large reddish brown species with prominent carapace reticulation (figs. 13–18) and an absence of spines on the hind legs (fig. 467). Eyes are large, with PER width about 0.5 cephalon width (figs. 15, 16) and eye area length subequal to clypeus in males (fig. 14) or greater than clypeus length in females (fig. 18). Male abdomen with dorsal and ventral scutes broad (fig. 201), with contact zone acutely indented (figs. 207, 208).

SPECIES INCLUDED: Malagiella andringitra , M. fisheri , M. ranomafana , and M. valterova .