Mallinella caperata 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 caperata

description: Mallinella caperata sp. nov.   
(Figs 538, 549–550, 590–595)  
 Material examined. Holotype: ♂, INDONESIA, Sumatra,  Jambi Province:  Mt. Tujuh, footpath to Lake Mt. Tujuh, 1,500 –2,000 m (evergreen hill forest), 20 February 2000, leg. P.J. Schwendinger (MHNG, Sum –00/15). Paratypes: 3♀, same data as holotype (MHNG, Sum –00/15).   
 Diagnosis. This new species is the smallest member of the sobria -group. Males are most similar to those of M. sobria comb. nov. in possessing a round embolic base, but they have a poorly developed subterminal fold (Fig. 590). Females can be distinguished by the conical spermathecae which are widest at mid-length (Fig. 550).   
 Etymology. The specific epithet (caperatus = wrinkled) refers to the opisthosoma which is provided with many folds.   
 Description. Male  (holotype). Total length 5.12; prosoma 2.90 long, 2.25 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.16, ALE 0.12, PME 0.11, PLE 0.12, AME–AME 0.8, AME–ALE 0.12, PME–PME 0.10, PME–PLE 0.38; MOQ: 0.46 long, 0.43 anterior width, 0.40 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 11.92 (2.86, 3.74, 3.00, 2.32), II 9.92 (2.49, 3.10, 2.48, 1.82), III 9.60 (2.60, 3.00, 2.48, 1.50), IV 13.08 (3.12, 3.98, 4.19, 2.18).   
 Coloration. Carapace chestnut-brown. Chelicerae brown. Sternum orange-brown. Legs yellowish brown except coxae yellowish. Dorsum of opisthosoma dark brown, without pattern.   
 Palp (Figs 590–592). RTA digitiform, gradually tapered towards bluntly pointed apex. TA elongated; apicoprolateral flange sickle-shaped, apex directed posteromesad; apico-prolateral tooth triangular; subterminal ridge indistinct; basal tooth minute, terminally pointed. Embolic base spherical. Embolus blade-like, elongated.   
 Female (paratype). Total length 4.92; prosoma 2.82 long, 2.16 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.16, ALE 0.12, PME 0.10, PLE 0.11, AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.10, PME–PME 0.08, PME–PLE 0.26; MOQ: 0.40 long, 0.36 anterior width, 0.34 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 11.47 (2.75, 3.60, 2.88, 2.24), II 9.54 (2.40, 2.98, 2.38, 1.76), III 9.24 (2.52, 2.88, 2.40, 1.44), IV 13.52 (3.20, 3.90, 4.12, 2.28).   
 Coloration (Fig. 538). Carapace orange-brown. Sternum yellowish brown. Chelicerae brown. Coxae whitish, other leg segment yellowish. Opisthosoma dark brown; cardiac region pale.   
 Genitalia (Figs 549–550, 593–595). Epigynal plate with broad transverse band, anteriorly excavated, posterior margin slightly protruding over epigastric furrow. Proximal part of spermathecae heavily sclerotized, with modified ventral swelling; distal part conical, widest at half length, internally with 3–4 coils.   
 Natural history. Mallinella caperata sp. nov. inhabits primary evergreen forests at relatively high altitude (1,500 –2,000 m asl).   
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality on Sumatra.
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 133-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5252563