Chrysso

Golden comb-footed spider
female C. spiniventris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Chrysso O. P-Cambridge, 1882
Diversity
67 species

male C. pulcherrima

Chrysso is a spider genus that mostly occurs in the Americas and Asia. C. pulcherrima is pantropical, C. nordica occurs from Hungary to Mongolia, and in North America, and C. spiniventris has been intruced in Europe.

Description

The females are about 9 mm long, the hairs on the tip of the abdomen are blade-like. Many species are strikingly colored, but, as in most theridiids, the coloration is variable. C. compressa for example has a striking black sternum and abdomen with a black venter in Brazil, but a yellow venter in Peru. C. venusta has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed.

Species

• Chrysso albomaculata O. P.-Cambridge, 1882 — USA, West Indies to Brazil
• Chrysso alecula Levi, 1962 — Panama
• Chrysso anei Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Chrysso angula (Tikader, 1970) — India
• Chrysso antonio Levi, 1962 — Brazil
• Chrysso argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) — China, Japan, Philippines
• Chrysso arima Levi, 1962 — Trinidad
• Chrysso arops Levi, 1962 — Brazil
• Chrysso backstromi (Berland, 1924) — Juan Fernandez Islands
• Chrysso barrosmachadoi Caporiacco, 1955 — Venezuela
• Chrysso bicuspidata Zhang & Zhang, 2012 — China
• Chrysso bifurca Zhang & Zhang, 2012 — China
• Chrysso bimaculata Yoshida, 1998 — China, Japan
• Chrysso calima Buckup & Marques, 1992 — Brazil
• Chrysso cambridgei (Petrunkevitch, 1911) — Mexico to Venezuela
• Chrysso caudigera Yoshida, 1993 — China, Taiwan
• Chrysso compressa (Keyserling, 1884) — Peru, Brazil
• Chrysso cyclocera Zhu, 1998 — China
• Chrysso dentaria Gao & Li, 2014 — China
• Chrysso diplosticha Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 — Panama to Peru
• Chrysso ecuadorensis Levi, 1957 — Colombia to Bolivia
• Chrysso fanjingshan Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006 — China
• Chrysso foliata (L. Koch, 1878) — Russia, China, Korea, Japan
• Chrysso gounellei Levi, 1962 — Brazil
• Chrysso huae Tang, Yin & Peng, 2003 — China
• Chrysso huanuco Levi, 1957 — Peru
• Chrysso indicifera Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 — Panama to Peru
• Chrysso intervales Gonzaga, Leiner & Santos, 2006 — Brazil
• Chrysso isumbo Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Chrysso lativentris Yoshida, 1993 — China, Korea, Taiwan
• Chrysso lingchuanensis Zhu & Zhang, 1992 — China
• Chrysso longshanensis Yin, 2012 — China
• Chrysso makiling Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015 — Philippines
• Chrysso mariae Levi, 1957 — Peru
• Chrysso melba Levi, 1962 — Panama
• Chrysso nigriceps Keyserling, 1884 — Colombia, Ecuador
• Chrysso nigrosterna Keyserling, 1891 — Brazil
• Chrysso nordica (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947) — Hungary to Mongolia, North America
• Chrysso octomaculata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Chrysso orchis Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 — Taiwan
• Chrysso oxycera Zhu & Song, 1993 — China
• Chrysso pelyx (Levi, 1957) — USA
• Chrysso pulcherrima (Mello-Leitao, 1917) — Pantropical
• Chrysso pulchra (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
• Chrysso questona Levi, 1962 — Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad
• Chrysso rubrovittata (Keyserling, 1884) — Brazil, Argentina
• Chrysso sasakii Yoshida, 2001 — Japan
• Chrysso scintillans (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, China, Korea, Japan, Philippines
• Chrysso sicki Levi, 1957 — Brazil
• Chrysso sikkimensis (Tikader, 1970) — India
• Chrysso silva Levi, 1962 — Panama
• Chrysso simoni Levi, 1962 — Venezuela
• Chrysso spiniventris (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) — Sri Lanka to Japan (Europe, introduced)
• Chrysso subrapula Zhu, 1998 — China
• Chrysso sulcata (Keyserling, 1884) — Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
• Chrysso tiboli Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Chrysso trimaculata Zhu, Zhang & Xu, 1991 — China, Taiwan, Thailand
• Chrysso trispinula Zhu, 1998 — China
• Chrysso urbasae (Tikader, 1970) — India
• Chrysso vallensis Levi, 1957 — Panama
• Chrysso vexabilis Keyserling, 1884 — Panama to Argentina
• Chrysso viridiventris Yoshida, 1996 — Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands
• Chrysso vitra Zhu, 1998 — China
• Chrysso vittatula (Roewer, 1942) — Colombia to Bolivia
• Chrysso volcanensis Levi, 1962 — Costa Rica, Panama
• Chrysso wangi Zhu, 1998 — China
• Chrysso wenxianensis Zhu, 1998 — China

References

• Werner, F.G. (1957): Spiders of the New Genus Arctachaea (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche 64: 102-106. PDF
• Levi, Herbert W. (1962): More American Spiders of the Genus Chrysso (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche 69: 209-237. PDF

External links

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