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
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1
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/356.1
journal article
10.1206/356.1
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Malagiella ambalavo
,
new species
Figures 379–392
,
487
; maps 1, 2, 4; table 1
TYPE: Female
holotype
from sifted litter in rainforest, at
40 km
S Ambalavo, 22
°
139S, 46
°
589E,
1275 m
, Res. Andringitra,
Fianarantsoa Province
,
Madagascar
(
15 Oct 1993
, B. Fisher), deposited in
CAS
(CASENT 9029657,
PBI
_OON 03223).
ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species is most similar to
M. vohiparara
, but differs in being slightly smaller, having reduced eyes (fig. 384) and a less sinuous receptaculum, W/L 5 0.9 (figs. 389–392).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 03223): Total length 1.41, carapace length 0.68, width 0.54. CEPH- ALOTHORAX: Carapace anteriorly narrowed to about 0.47 times its maximum width (fig. 380), surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides smooth (fig. 381). Clypeus sloping forward in lateral view, subequal to eye area length (fig. 382). Eyes small, PME reduced and irregular, difficult to see; eye row width 0.43 carapace width; length 0.93 clypeus length (figs. 380, 384). ABDO-
MEN
: Book lung covers ovoid (fig. 386). Pedicel tube short (fig. 387), scutum dorsal extension about 0.2 pedicel diameters (fig. 404). Dorsal scutum covering about 0.75 abdomen length, about 0.5 abdomen width (fig. 380). Dense patch of setae anterior to spinnerets present, but weak (fig. 382). LEGS: Pale orange; patella plus tibia I nearly as long as carapace (fig. 381). Leg spination: femur I p0-1-0; tibiae: I v4-4-0, II v4-2-0, IV v0-0-2 (weak). GENITALIA: Receptaculum strongly sinuous, W/L 5 0.9 (figs. 389–392).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality, Res. Andringitra,
Madagascar
.