Genus Colyttus Thorell, 1891

Description. Medium sized, bright and colorful spiders. Chelicera with two promarginal teeth; retromargin with one unident or bicuspid tooth. Embolus of male palp usually wide and only slightly coiled; embolic disc large; proximal tegular lobe present. Epigynal window present with a median septum. Copulatory duct short; vulva with a pair of secondary spermathecae in addition to the primary spermathecae.

Remarks. Two species have been recorded from Southeast Asia (Platnick 2012). A new species from Malaysia is described here.