Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanteriidae).
Author
Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa
text
2001
Brill Leiden; Boston; Köln
Leiden, Netherlands
Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders- Family Liocranidae
400
505
book chapter
10.5281/zenodo.814704
887f4c2c-1812-4aa5-b994-58388f6a45c5
814704
Sesieutes erawan
sp. n.
(
figs 767-770
,
map 38
)
Type locality.
— W
Thailand
, Prov.
Kanchanaburi
,
Erawan Waterfalls National Park
.
Type material.
—
Holotype
♂ from the type locality, evergreen forest along river, leaf litter,
15-16.iii. 1986
,
P.R.
and
C.L. Deeleman
.
Other material
.—
N
Thailand
,
Lamphun Province
,
Mae Tha
,
Doi Khun Tan
,
1200-1300m
, I ♂, disturbed evergreen forest,
16.ii.1992
,
P.J. Schwendinger
(
MHNG
);
2 ♂
Doi Inthanon
,
1250m
,
6.xi. 1985
,
P.J. Schwendinger
(
MHNG
and
CD
).
Diagnosis
.— This species resembles
Sesieutes schwendingeri
.
It is distinguishable by the smaller size, the absence of a round thoracic pit, the presence of an interrupted white ring around the abdomen, the different pattern of the venter and the larger distal tibial apophysis.
Description.
— MALE. Total length
4.70 mm
. Carapace length
2.30 mm
, width
1.90 mm
, height at coxae II
0.70 mm
, head width
1.20 mm
, width eye group
0.80 mm
; abdomen
2.50 mm
long,
1.40 mm
wide. Leg lengths: leg I
6.70 mm
(2.10-2.20-1.70-0.70) leg II
6.25 mm
(1.75-2.25-1.35-0.90), leg III
5.35 mm
(1.50-1.75-1.30-0.80), leg IV
7.70 mm
(2.10-2.60-2.15-0.85), palp 0.75-0.25-0.35-
0.85 mm
. Carapace dark chestnut, with scabrous surface with darker radiating streaks, sternum orange, legs I and II dark, tibiae with yellow distal band, base and tip of metatarsi and tarsi yellow; femora III and IV dark, other leg segments yellow, patellae and tibiae with dark bands. Abdomen dorsally with scutum over half the length and width, halfway a white transverse band, interrupted in the middle, and a white area above the spinnerets; ventral surface predominantly dark, with one large post-genital white V, laterally a light oval spot at level of dorsal white band. Thoracic groove obsolete. Both eye rows faintly recurved when viewed from above, AER procurved when seen from front, AME half their d apart, connivent to laterals, PME slightly smaller, oval, separated by their d, more from laterals. Leg spination: femur I with 2-3 strong prolateral spines distally, other femora spineless, ventral surface of tibiae I and II flattened, with 8-9 pro- and 7 retroventral strong spines in leg I, 7 pro- and 6 retroventral spines in leg II, tibia III and IV with l-2v or 2-2v, 1 rl and an additional apical ventral pair in leg IV; metatarsus I with 5 pairs of ventral spines, metatarsus II with 4 pairs, metatarsus III with 2v and 1 pv, metatarsus IV with 1-1
v
and 1 rl. Dorsal abdominal scutum as in fig. 767, ventral scutum (fig. 768) with short, non-grooved collar. Palp as in figs 769-770, embolus looping back on dorsal side of tegulum over 3/4 its length.
FEMALE. Unknown.
Distribution
.— W and N Thailand.
Etymology.
— From the type locality.