title: Three new species and a new record of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 from Brunei (Araneae, Zodariidae).
abstract: This article is the first formal record of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 in Brunei Darussalam. Four Mallinella species are documented. Mallinella merimbunenis sp. nov., M. myrmecophaga sp. nov., and M. platyrhyncha sp. nov. are newly described. The females of M. bigemina Dankittipakul, Jocqué & Singtripop, 2012 are here recorded from Brunei for the first time. The latter species was previously known only from an evergreen hill forest at 2,000 m elevation at Mt. Kinabalu of Kinabalu Park in Sabah.
authors.affiliation: Manukau Institute of Technology, Private Bag 94006, Manukau 2241, Auckland, New Zealand. Endocrinology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.; Email: pakawin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Pakawin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dankittipakul
authors.affiliation: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, 6, Science Drive 2, Blk S6 #03-01, Singapore 117546.; Email: josephkhkoh@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Joseph K H
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.affiliation: Endocrinology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.; Email: tippawan.si@cmu.ac.th.
authors.forename: Tippawan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Singtripop
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002010:Brunei; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*