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Template:Automatic taxobox Chrysso is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.[1]

C. pulcherrima is pantropical, C. spiniventris has been introduced to Europe, and C. nordica occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia.

Description

Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. C. compressahas a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. C. venusta has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed.

Females are about Template:Convert long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen.

Species

Template:As of it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia:[2]

Formerly included:

  • C. acrobeles (Thorell, 1895) (Transferred to Coleosoma)
  • C. albipes (Saito, 1935) (Transferred to Chikunia)
  • C. argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) (Transferred to Meotipa)
  • C. conigerum (Simon, 1914) (Transferred to Achaeridion)
  • C. jianglensis Zhu & Song, 1993 (Transferred to Meotipa)
  • C. maronica Caporiacco, 1954 (Transferred to Cryptachaea)
  • C. octomaculata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Coleosoma)
  • C. pentagona Caporiacco, 1954 (Transferred to Achaearanea)
  • C. picturata (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Meotipa)
  • C. rapula (Yaginuma, 1960) (Transferred to Chikunia)
  • C. shimenensis Tang, Yin & Peng, 2003 (Transferred to Thwaitesia)
  • C. sikkimensis (Tikader, 1970) (Transferred to Linyphia)
  • C. vesiculosa (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Meotipa)

See also

References

  1. On new genera and species of Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London({Template:Year).
  2. Gen. Chrysso O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882({Template:Year).

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