Shiny Spiny-legged Spider
This is the species that was designated as the "type" that represents the genus Sesieutes. It was based on a male specimen collected by the renowned French arachnologist Eugéne Simon during his trip to Singapore in 1890.
Sesieutes may be recognised by a combination of characters. These include the presence of a sharply defined scutum on the dorsum of the abdomen in both males and females; a rebordered (thickened at the border) clypeal lobe extending in front of the face, a pair of small, oval and well-separated PME. femora I with 1–3 prolateral spines, and tarsi I and metatarsi I with several ventral spines. S. lucens may be separated from other Southeast Asian Sesieutes species by the details of its genitalia.
| Length | ♀ 5 mm; ♂ 4 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Johor). |
| Habitat | Forest floor, near streams. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; ♂ (Ar 13829) (Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013)
Sesieutes lucens (Original description ♂)
Sesieutes lucens (♂)
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]): 449, f. 734-735
Sesieutes lucens (♂, D♀)
Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 Delimitation of the spider genus Sesieutes Simon, 1897, with descriptions of five new species from south east Asia (Araneae: Corinnidae): 178, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3D, 4A-E, 10I doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.742165
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Johor).