The Malagasy Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Malagiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Ubick, Darrell
Author
Griswold, Charles E.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-08-10
2011
356
1
86
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/356.1
journal article
10.1206/356.1
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Malagiella ranavalona
,
new species
Figures 329–344
,
487
, maps 1, 2, 4; table 1
TYPE: Female
holotype
from forêt autour du Palais de la Reine Ranavalona, env., Ambohimanga,
20 km
N
Antananarivo
,
1400 m
,
Antananarivo Province
,
Madagascar
(
9 Dec 1989
, B. Hauser), deposited in
NHMB
(Bern-Mad-89/59,
PBI
_OON 03637).
ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species differs from others in the group by the moderately sinuous receptaculum, W/L 5 0.76 (figs. 339–344).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 03637): Total length 1.61 (1.50–1.61), carapace length 0.60, width 0.49, N 5 2. CEPHALOTHORAX (figs. 329 –331, 333–335): Eyes small, subequal; eye area about 0.40 carapace width, subequal to clypeus length (figs. 331, 334). ABDOMEN (figs. 332, 336–338): Pedicel tube short (fig. 337), scutum dorsal extension short, about 0.3 pedicel diameters. Dorsal scutum weakly sclerotized, pale orange, covering about 0.5 abdomen length, 0.3 abdomen width (fig. 330). LEGS: Patella plus tibia I nearly as long as carapace. Leg spination (in addition to typical pattern): tibia IV v0-0-2. GENITALIA: Postepigastric scutum weakly sclerotized; receptaculum moderately sinuous, W/L 5 0.76 (figs. 341–344).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MADA- GASCAR:
Antananarivo Province
: Ambohimanga,
20 km
N
Antananarivo
, forêt autour du Palais de la Reine Ranavalona, env.,
1400 m
,
9 Dec 1989
(C. Lienhard, NHMB Bern-Mad-89/60, PBI_OON 03919),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality in central
Madagascar
.