Mallinella innovata Dankittipakul & Jocqué & Singtripop 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dankittipakul, Pakawin
name: Jocqué, Rudy
name: Singtripop, Tippawan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Mallinella
Mallinella innovata

description: Mallinella innovata sp. nov.   
(Figs 312, 331–335, 354–536)  
 Material examined. Holotype: ♂, THAILAND ,  Nan Province:  Nanthaburi NP, Doi Wao evergreen hill forest at 1,280 m, 22 May 2002, leg. P. Dankittipakul (MHNG, TH5). Paratypes: 3♂, data as the holotype (MHNG, TNHM).   
 Diagnosis. The new species is similar to M. filicata sp. nov. in general features of palpal organ but in that species the tegular spine is larger and the embolic base is reniform. Males can be easily recognized by the enlarged, semi-circular tegulum armed with a sharply pointed tegular spine (Fig. 354).   
 Etymology. The specific epithet is a latinized adjective of the Latin verb (innovare = to renew, restore), emphasizing the re-discovery of the decorata -group in another part of the Indo-Burma subregion after the first species had been described more than a century ago.   
 Description. Male  (holotype). Total length 8.80; prosoma 4.18 long, 2.75 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.10, ALE 0.08, PME 0.08, PLE 0.08, AME–AME 0.07, AME–ALE 0.12, PME–PME 0.08, PME–PLE 0.24; MOQ: 0.32 long, 0.36 anterior width, 0.26 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 9.13 (2.64, 2.75, 2.31, 1.43), II 9.17 (2.66, 2.92, 2.16, 1.42), III 9.60 (2.60, 2.02, 2.32, 1.68), IV 9.84 (2.76, 2.83, 2.64, 1.60).   
 Coloration (Fig. 312). Carapace uniform dark reddish brown, integument moderately granulated. Coxae white; anterior legs yellowish white; posterior ones orange-brown. Opisthosoma sepia. Dorsal pattern: first pair represented by two irregular spots medially fused; second pair by two transverse bands anteriorly connected via narrow stripe; third and fourth pairs by medially disconnected bands; from fifth pair onwards by a series of narrow transverse bands fusing with additional pair of pale spots. Dorsal scutum coriaceous, yellowish brown, elongated and narrowed, extending to half opisthosomal length.   
 Palp (Figs 354–356). RTA strongly excavated baso-prolaterally, gradually tapered anteriorly to form blunt apex. Cymbial fold broad, reaching approximately 3/4 length of cymbium. TA with bifid apical process; apico-prolateral fold subtriangular, represented by elevated ridge in ventral view; baso-prolateral fold strongly pronounced, sharply pointed in prolateral view. Tegulum distinctly enlarged. Tegular spine minute, apex sharply pointed. Embolic base subtriangular, anterior margin strongly excavated medially; membranous area narrowed, situated prolaterally. Embolus filiform, elongated, originating at 90°.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Natural history. Mallinella innovata sp. nov. inhabits evergreen hill forests.   
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Nan Province, northern Thailand.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-327 in Zootaxa 3369 (1) on pages 82-83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5252563