Mallinella pectinata, 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 : 93

The pectinata -group

The pectinata -group has a sister relation to ( hamata - + ( convolutiva - ( advena - + decorata -group))). Representatives of the pectinata -group can be recognized by the poorly developed dorsal pattern on the opisthosoma and by the peculiar genital structures. Posterior ventral spines are cylindrical, elongate, and apically sharply pointed ( Figs 390–391 ). Males can be distinguished by the following autapomorphies: the TA carrying a peculiar prolateral extension (Ch. 83, state 2) and by the membranous apical groove instead of a rostrated apico-prolateral process (Ch. 82, state 4). Females can be recognized by the epigynal plate with an anterior median tubercle and by the spermathecae anteriorly strongly convoluted.

Species account. Mallinella pectinata sp. nov.

Distribution. A single species from Indonesia and Malaysia.

Figures

FIGURES 387–391. 387–388, 391. Mallinella pectinata sp. nov., holotype. 389, 390. M. pectinata sp. nov., paratype. 387, 389. Habitus, dorsal. 388. Ditto, ventral. 390–391. PVS.