Sesieutes Explained

Sesieutes is a genus of Asian liocranid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897.^[1] It was briefly transferred to the Corinnidae in 2013,^[2] but was returned a year later due to its similarity and relation to Phrurolithus.^[3]

Species

it contains thirteen species:^[4]

• Sesieutes aberrans Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Thailand
• Sesieutes abruptus Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Malaysia
• Sesieutes apiculatus Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia
• Sesieutes bifidus Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Malaysia
• Sesieutes borneensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines
• Sesieutes bulbosus Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
• Sesieutes emancipatus Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Malaysia
• Sesieutes longyangensis Zhao & Peng, 2013 – China
• Sesieutes lucens Simon, 1897 (type) – Malaysia, Singapore
• Sesieutes minor Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
• Sesieutes minuatus Dankittipakul & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Thailand
• Sesieutes nitens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
• Sesieutes scrobiculatus Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra)

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1897. Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 465–510. 65.
2. Dankittipakul. P.. Deeleman-Reinhold. C.. 2013. Delimitation of the spider genus Sesieutes Simon, 1897, with descriptions of five new species from south east Asia (Araneae: Corinnidae). Journal of Natural History. 47. 3–4. 168 . 10.1080/00222933.2012.742165 . 83591107.
3. Ramírez. M. J.. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390. 343. 10.1206/821.1. 11336/18066. 86146467. free.
4. Gen. Sesieutes Simon, 1897. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-22. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.