Mallinella sobria ( Thorell, 1890 ) Dankittipakul & Jocqué & Singtripop, 2012

Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Jocqué, Rudy & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2012, Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae) 3369, Zootaxa 3369 (1), pp. 1-327 : 127-129

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1
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scientific name	Mallinella sobria ( Thorell, 1890 )
status	comb. nov.

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Mallinella sobria ( Thorell, 1890) View in CoL comb. nov.

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Storena sobria Thorell, 1890: 335 , description of ♂. Kritscher, 1957: 269, fig. 28, description of ♀ (misidentification = M. kritscheri View in CoL sp. nov.)

Material examined. ♂, Holotype, INDONESIA, Sumatra, West Sumatra Province: Mt. Sigalang, leg. O. Beccari ( MSNG, examined); original label: / Storena sobria Thor. ; Sigalang, O. Beccari/. Old material. INDONESIA, Sumatra: 1♂, original label: Sumatra, Si Rambe , leg. Modigliani. - Sammlung Reimoser ; Reimoser don. (A.-D. 15.X.1938), det. Inv. Nr. 433 ( Figs k34, k37 View FIGURES 25–38. 25–33, 35–37 ) ( NHMV, examined). New material. INDONESIA, Sumatra, West Sumatra Province: 1♂, 1♀, old secondary forest above Taman Hutan Raya Bung Hatta , near road Padang–Lubuksulasih , (00º56'45"S, 100º32'37"E), 1,100 m, primary forest, 29–30 May 2006, leg. P.J. Schwendinger ( MHNG, Sum–06/01). 1♂, 2♀, Mt. Singalang Anai , 400–520 m, secondary forest, 9–24 July 1994 ( RMHN). GoogleMaps

Remarks. Examination of additional material that has recently become available from the primary forests of Sumatra (collected by Dr. P.J. Schwendinger and Dr. C. Deeleman-Reinhold) suggests that the female described by Kritscher (1957) is not conspecific with Storena sobria . Both male and female (here described) of M. sobria comb. nov. lack a color pattern on the dorsum of the opisthosoma ( Figs 535–536 View FIGURES 535–538. 535 , 565–566 View FIGURES 565–569. 565 ) and its anteriorly broad carapace is strongly rugous ( Figs 535–536 View FIGURES 535–538. 535 , 565–566, 568 View FIGURES 565–569. 565 ) (the opisthosomal pattern is distinctive and the carapace is finely punctated in the female examined by Kritscher, Fig. 567 View FIGURES 565–569. 565 ). It is obvious that M. sobria comb. nov. occurs together with another species at the type locality, Mt. Sigalang. Therefore, the female erroneously identified by Kritscher as S. sobria is here described as M. kritscheri sp. nov.

Redescription. Male (MSNG, holotype). See Thorell (1890 a: 335) for measurements.

Coloration ( Fig. 565 View FIGURES 565–569. 565 ). Prosoma anteriorly broad, strongly granulated, clothed with white pubescence on ocular region, provided with a longitudinal furrow between PME and deep, longitudinal fovea. Carapace brown. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma dark brown, with dorsal scutum occupying half length of opisthosoma. Posterior ventral spines apically sharply pointed.

Palp ( Figs 573–575 View FIGURES 570–577. 570–572 , 578–581 View FIGURES 578–583. 578–581 ). RTA digitiform, constricted at base, widest in the middle, gradually tapered towards apically bluntly pointed apex. Cymbium with deep and broad cymbial fold, nearly reaching its apex. TA provided with sharply pointed apico-prolateral flange; apical ridge triangular; subapical tooth broad, triangular, situated posterior to apical ridge; basal tooth sharply pointed, directed anteriad. Embolic base subspherical. Embolus blade-like, elongated.

Male (new material, MHNG, Sum–06/01). Coloration ( Fig. 535 View FIGURES 535–538. 535 ). Carapace dark chestnut-brown, strongly granulated. Coxae and trochanters whitish; proximally part of femora yellowish; other legs segments yellowish brown. Opisthosoma sepia.

Female (here designated, MHNG, Sum–06/01). Total length 7.17; prosoma 3.19 long, 2.90 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.18, ALE 0.16, PME 0.16, PLE 0.16, AME–AME 0.08, AME–ALE 0.18, PME–PME 0.12, PME–PLE 0.28; MOQ: 0.44 long, 0.38 anterior width, 0.36 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 14.24 (3.36, 4.49, 3.96, 2.40), II 11.26 (2.90, 2.90, 3.06, 2.38), III 10.14 (2.56, 3.18, 2.54, 1.88), IV 13.28 (3.38, 3.08, 4.38, 2.42).

Coloration ( Fig. 536 View FIGURES 535–538. 535 ). Carapace dark chestnut-brown, strongly granulated. Legs yellowish brown, except distal part of femora brown.

Genitalia ( Figs 551–552 View FIGURES 545–556. 545–548 , 582–583 View FIGURES 578–583. 578–581 ). Epigynal plate represented by broad transverse band, anterior margin with shallow median incision, posterior margin straight. Insemination ducts triangular, short, divergent. Proximal part of spermathecae provided with posterior lateral swelling, distal part conical, elongate-ovoid, internally with 7–8 coils.

Natural history. This new species occurs syntopically with M. kritscheri sp. nov. on the floor of primary and secondary rainforests.

Distribution. West Sumatra.