Mallinella langping, Zhang, Bao-Shi & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009

Zhang, Bao-Shi & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, Three new species of the ant spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from China, Zootaxa 2212, pp. 62-68 : 66-68

Mallinella langping sp. nov.

( Figs 10–13 )

Type material: Male holotype from Langping town (24°29΄N, 106°21΄E), Tianlin County, Guangxi Province, China, 27 May 2006, M.S. Zhu leg. ( MHBU).

Diagnosis: Male resemble those of Mallinella nomurai Ono, 2003 ( Ono, 2003: 132, f. 1–9) from Vietnam in the general structure of the palpal organ, but differ from the latter species by: (1) the basal median apophysis on tegulum thin and smooth, posterior margin of the latter wide and curve; (2) the tip of lateral embolic ramus wide, the latter thin; (3) dorsum of opisthosoma with two pairs of white patches and followed by two transverse bands, the latter with a pair of white patches and followed by two transverse bands ( Figs 10–13 ).

Etymology: The specific name refers to the type locality.

Description: Male. Holotype Total length 9.08: prosoma 4.59 long, 3.16 wide; opisthosoma 4.18 long, 2.96 wide.

Colour. Carapace ( Fig. 10 ) dark brown. Each eye ringed with black. Chelicerae and endites dark brown, the end yellowish. Labium dark brown, the end gray white. Sternum reddish-brown. Legs brown except femora black brown. Dorsum of opisthosoma gray black with two pairs of white patches, followed by two transverse bands; venter yellowish, margin and posterior part gray black, median covered with little brown spots, each side with a gray black narrow longitudinal band.

Prosoma ( Fig. 10 ). Carapace longer than wide. Eyes: both the eye rows procurved in dorsal view. Diameters of eyes: AME 0.14, ALE 0.11, PME 0.11, PLE 0.11. Interdistances of eyes: AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.10, PME–PME 0.10, PME–PLE 0.21, ALE–PLE 0.03. MOA 0.30 long, front width 0.31, back width 0.30. This specimen is deformity, with only one eye on the right side. Clypeus height 1.02 and furnished with few hair. Endites end armed with dense black hair. Labium triangular, 0.71 long, 0.51 wide. Sternum 1.84 long, 1.63 wide and furnished with sparse black hair, its lateral margin with small, pointed extensions fitting in coxal concavities of legs.

Opisthosoma ( Fig. 10 ). Oval, longer than wide. Posterior dorsum with pleat. Posterior spinnerets much shorter than anterior ones.

Legs. Metatarsi II–IV with ventral hair tufts in the apical part. Dorsum of tibiae armed with trichobothria. Leg spination: Femora: I d 0-1-0-1-1, pl 1(ap); II d 0-1-0-1-1, pl 0-1-0-0-1, rl 0-1-1; III d 1-0-1, pl 1-1-0, rl 0- 0-1-0-1; IV d 0-1-0-1-1-1, pl 0-1-0-0-1, rl 1(ap); patellae: III–IV pl 1; tibia: I pl 0-1-0-0-0; vp0-1-1-1, vr1-1-0- 1; II pl 0-1-0-0-0, vp0-0-0-1, vr1-1-0-1; III d1-1-0, pl 0-1-0-1-0, rl 0-1/0-0-1-0, v2-2 -2; IV d1-1-0, pl 0-1-0-1- 0, rl 0-1-0-1-0, v2-2 -2; metatarsi: I pl 1(ap), vp0-1-1-1, vr0-1-1-1-0-1; II pl 1(ap), vp0-1-1-1, vr0-1-1-1-0-1; III pl 1(ap), dp0-1-1-1, dr0-1-1, vp0-1-1-1, vr0-1-1-1-0-1; IV pl 1(ap), dp1-1-0-1-0-1, dr1-1-1-1-0-0-1, v2-2 - 2-2. Measurements of legs: leg I 10.81 (2.75, 1.12, 2.55, 2.35, 2.04), II 9.79 (2.55, 1.12, 2.14, 2.14, 1.84), III 9.59 (2.45, 1.22, 1.94, 2.45, 1.53), IV 12.64 (3.16, 1.22, 2.75, 3.57, 1.94). Leg formula: 4123.

Male palp ( Figs 11–13 ). Retrolateral apophysis of tibia digitiform, only wider at the base, ventral apophysis short and wide; median apophysis on tegulum large, its tip nearly triangle and point to prolateral and retrolateral, embolic division very thick, embolus with wide tip, lateral ramus of embolus developed.

Female unknown.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 13. Mallinella langping sp. nov., 10, body, dorsal view; 11, left palpal organ, ventral view; 12, same, retrolateral view; 13, the distal part of embolic division, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm.