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Issue: Vol. 4568 No. 2: 20 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.2
Page range: 242–260
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 2

Four new species of the genus Mallinella (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Malaysia 

College of biochemistry and environmental engineering, Baoding University, Baoding, Hebei 071051, P. R. China College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050024, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae Zodariids description distribution taxonomy Asia

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, from the natural forests of Malaysia, are described as Mallinella bicanaliculata sp. n. (♂♀), M. calautica sp. n. (♂♀), M. laxa sp. n. (♂♀), and M. obliqua sp. n. (♂♀). The four new species belong to four species groups and were collected from the forest litter in Sabah state by sieving.

 

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