Chrysso is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.
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. compressa has 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 long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen.
Species
it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia:
- C. albomaculata <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882</small> (type) â USA, Caribbean to Brazil
- C. alecula <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Panama
- C. anei <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> â Philippines
- C. angula <small>(Tikader, 1970)</small> â India
- C. antonio <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Brazil
- C. arima <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Trinidad
- C. arops <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Brazil
- C. backstromi <small>(Berland, 1924)</small> â Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
- C. barrosmachadoi <small>Caporiacco, 1955</small> â Venezuela
- C. bicuspidata <small>Zhang & Zhang, 2012</small> â China
- C. bifurca <small>Zhang & Zhang, 2012</small> â China
- C. bimaculata <small>Yoshida, 1998</small> â China, Japan
- C. calima <small>Buckup & Marques, 1992</small> â Brazil
- C. cambridgei <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1911)</small> â Mexico to Venezuela
- C. caudigera <small>Yoshida, 1993</small> â China, Taiwan
- C. compressa <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> â Peru, Brazil
- C. cyclocera <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. dentaria <small>Gao & Li, 2014</small> â China
- C. diplosticha <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936</small> â Panama to Peru
- C. ecuadorensis <small>Levi, 1957</small> â Colombia to Bolivia
- C. fanjingshan <small>Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006</small> â China
- C. foliata <small>(L. Koch, 1878)</small> â Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- C. gounellei <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Brazil
- C. hejunhuai <small>Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013</small> â China
- C. huae <small>Tang, Yin & Peng, 2003</small> â China
- C. huanuco <small>Levi, 1957</small> â Peru
- C. hyoshidai <small>Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013</small> â China
- C. indicifera <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936</small> â Panama to Peru
- C. intervales <small>Gonzaga, Leiner & Santos, 2006</small> â Brazil
- C. isumbo <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> â Philippines
- C. lativentris <small>Yoshida, 1993</small> â China, Korea, Taiwan
- C. lingchuanensis <small>Zhu & Zhang, 1992</small> â China
- C. longshanensis <small>Yin, 2012</small> â China
- C. mariae <small>Levi, 1957</small> â Peru
- C. melba <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Panama
- C. nigriceps <small>Keyserling, 1884</small> â Colombia, Ecuador
- C. nigrosterna <small>Keyserling, 1891</small> â Brazil
- C. nordica <small>(Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947)</small> â France, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North America
- C. orchis <small>Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000</small> â Taiwan
- C. oxycera <small>Zhu & Song, 1993</small> â China
- C. pelyx <small>(Levi, 1957)</small> â USA
- C. pulchra <small>(Keyserling, 1891)</small> â Brazil
- C. questona <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad
- C. rubrovittata <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> â Brazil, Argentina
- C. sasakii <small>Yoshida, 2001</small> â Japan
- C. scintillans <small>(Thorell, 1895)</small> â Myanmar, India, China, Korea, Japan, Philippines
- C. sicki <small>Levi, 1957</small> â Brazil
- C. silva <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Panama
- C. simoni <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Venezuela
- C. subrapula <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. sulcata <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> â Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- C. tiboli <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> â Philippines
- C. trimaculata <small>Zhu, Zhang & Xu, 1991</small> â China, Taiwan, Thailand
- C. trispinula <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. urbasae <small>(Tikader, 1970)</small> â India
- C. vallensis <small>Levi, 1957</small> â Panama
- C. vexabilis <small>Keyserling, 1884</small> â Panama to Argentina
- C. viridiventris <small>Yoshida, 1996</small> â Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
- C. vitra <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. vittatula <small>(Roewer, 1942)</small> â Colombia to Bolivia
- C. volcanensis <small>Levi, 1962</small> â Costa Rica, Panama
- C. wangi <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. wenxianensis <small>Zhu, 1998</small> â China
- C. yulingu <small>Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013</small> â China
Formerly included:
- C. acrobeles <small>(Thorell, 1895)</small> (Transferred to Coleosoma)
- C. albipes <small>(Saito, 1935)</small> (Transferred to Chikunia)
- C. argyrodiformis <small>(Yaginuma, 1952)</small> (Transferred to Meotipa)
- C. conigerum <small>(Simon, 1914)</small> (Transferred to Achaeridion)
- C. jianglensis <small>Zhu & Song, 1993</small> (Transferred to Meotipa)
- C. maronica <small>Caporiacco, 1954</small> (Transferred to Cryptachaea)
- C. octomaculata <small>(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)</small> (Transferred to Coleosoma)
- C. pentagona <small>Caporiacco, 1954</small> (Transferred to Achaearanea)
- C. picturata <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> (Transferred to Meotipa)
- C. rapula <small>(Yaginuma, 1960)</small> (Transferred to Chikunia)
- C. shimenensis <small>Tang, Yin & Peng, 2003</small> (Transferred to Thwaitesia)
- C. sikkimensis <small>(Tikader, 1970)</small> (Transferred to Linyphia)
- C. vesiculosa <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> (Transferred to Meotipa)
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