Long-abdomen Two-tailed Spider
The spider was first described from a specimen collected from the forest canopy at Kinabalu National Park and was named after "labah-labah", the Bahasa word for spiders. This species can easily be distinguished from other Hersilia in Singapore by its elongated body shape, with a length that is 1.5 to 2.0 times of the width. The abdomen has a paired series of conspicuously large pits with muscular attachment points (known as "sigilla", white arrow).
| Length | ♀ 6–8 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm. |
| Habitat | Tree trunks in mangrove, secondary and primary forests. |
| Type Locality | Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia. |
| Distribution | Brunei, Malaysia (Sabah), Singapore. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil; ♀ (Lin & Li, 2022a)
Hersilia lelabah (Original description ♀)
Rheims & Brescovit, 2004b Description of four new species of Hersiliidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Kimabalu National Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia: 2855, f. 7-9 doi:10.1080/00222930310001657694
Hersilia lelabah (Original description ♂, ♀)
Yu et al., 2024c A survey of Hersilia spiders (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China: 4, f. 3A-C, 4A-F, 5A-D, 6A-E doi:10.3897/BDJ.12.e142805
Brunei, Malaysia (Sabah), Singapore.