Mallinella indica Sankaran & Caleb & Sebastian 2020, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Sankaran, Pradeep M.
name: Caleb, John T. D.
name: Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Mallinella
Mallinella indica

description: Mallinella indica (Tikader & Patel, 1975) comb. nov.
Figs 10–11
Storena indica Tikader & Patel, 1975: 137, figs 1–6.
Storena indica – Patel & Reddy 1989: 223.
Type material
Holotype
INDIA • ♀; Gujarat, Panch Mahals (= Panchmahals), Pavagadh; 22°27′43.7″ N, 73°31′26.6″ E; 433 m a.s.l.; 10 Sep. 1972; B.H. Patel leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).
Paratype
INDIA • ♀; Gujarat, Kheda (= Kaira), Vallabh Vidyanagar; 22°32′48.0″ N, 72°55′45.9″ E; 44 m a.s.l.; 26 Jul. 1971; B.H. Patel leg.; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).
Allotype
INDIA • ♂; same collection data as for paratype; NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified).
Supplementary description
Male (allotype (5356/18); Fig. 10C)
Colour in alcohol: carapace, eye region, clypeus, chelicerae, fangs, chilum, sternum, endites, labium dark reddish-brown; leg and palp segments pale yellowish; dorsal opisthosoma black, with paired medio-lateral creamy-white blotches. Body length 6.54. Carapace length 3.45, width 2.47. Opisthosoma length 3.09, width 2.20. Eye diameters: ALE 0.19. AME 0.21. PLE 0.20. PME 0.18. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.11. ALE–PLE 0.03. AME–AME 0.13. AME–PME 0.15. PME–PLE 0.25. PME–PME 0.15. Chelicerae length 1.14. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.71, at AMEs 0.92. Measurements of pedipalp and legs. Pedipalp 4.41 [1.49, 0.55, 0.36, 2.01], I (right) 11.25 [2.83, 1.21, 2.25, 2.91, 2.05], II 10.17 [2.66, 1.02, 2.12, 2.53, 1.84], III 9.74 [2.48, 1.03, 1.84, 2.73, 1.66], IV 12.60 [2.95, 0.90, 2.59, 3.98, 2.18]. Leg formula: 4123. Pedipalp as in Fig. 11 C–E.
Female (holotype (5354/18); Fig. 10A)
Like male except the following: body length 7.69. Carapace length 3.63, width 2.37. Opisthosoma length 4.06, width 3.22. Eye diameters: ALE 0.19. AME 0.20. PLE 0.19. PME 0.17. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.12. ALE–PLE 0.06. AME–AME 0.19. AME–PME 0.19. PME–PLE 0.35. PME–PME 0.17. Chelicerae length 1.35. Clypeus height at ALEs 0.80, at AMEs 1.02. Measurements of palp and legs. Palp 3.44 [1.20, 0.61, 0.64, 0.99], I 9.63 [2.41, 0.99, 2.00, 2.34, 1.89], II 9.07 [2.40, 1.02, 1.87, 2.33, 1.45], III (right) 9.60 [2.42, 1.08, 1.80, 2.67, 1.63], IV (right) 11.85 [2.88, 0.97, 2.35, 3.99, 1.66]. Leg formula: 4132. Epigynum as in Fig. 10D.
Measurements of paratype female (Fig. 10B): body length 7.95. Carapace length 4.17, width 2.60. Opisthosoma length 3.78, width 2.80. Genitalia as in Fig. 11 A–B.
Justification of the transfer
Tikader & Patel (1975) described this species on the basis of male and female specimens collected in Gujarat. Detailed study of the types of this species indicates that it has diagnostic features of Mallinella
as illustrated in Dankittipakul et al. (2012). Based on this observation, we propose to transfer S. indica to Mallinella.
Remarks
The ZSI collection has three glass tubes for this species. First tube labeled as “ holotype ” (5354/18) contains one female specimen in good condition, with intact genitalia. Second tube labeled as “ paratype ” (5355/18) contains one female specimen in good condition, with detached opisthosoma. Third tube labeled as “ allotype ” (5356/18) contains one male specimen in good condition. The same tube contains another label mentioning that the collecting locality of holotype, paratype and allotype as Pavagadh with register number 5354/18.
description: Published as part of Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2020, A review of the Indian species formerly assigned to the genus Storena Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with the description of a new genus, pp. 1-23 in European Journal of Taxonomy 707 on pages 17-20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.707, http://zenodo.org/record/4011010