Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Back
Gen.
Chrysso O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00675 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Theridion by Bryant, 1940: 313 (contra Simon, 1894a: 550); considered a senior synonym of Arctachaea Levi, 1957e: 102 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05312] (type A. pelyx Levi, 1957) and Argyroaster Yaginuma, 1958b: 37 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05314] by Levi & Levi, 1962: 16; considered a senior synonym of Physcoa Thorell, 1895b: 82 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06169] (type P. scintillans Thorell, 1895) [regarded as junior synoynym of Meotipa by Simon, 1895a: 1068] by Yoshida, 2001c: 174 (by transfer of the type species, accepting the presumption of Levi & Levi, 1962: 47); Argyroaster is a replacement name for Argyria Yaginuma, 1957b: 11 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05313] (type A. venusta Yaginuma, 1957 = Chrysso scintillans (Thorell, 1895)), preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hübner, 1818; not a senior synonym of Meotipa Simon, 1895 (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 407, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 23).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-11-05
2024-11-05
Described in
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 429 (type Chrysso albomaculata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882; gender feminine)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 429 (type Chrysso albomaculata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts | Status |
61 | accepted |
29 | synonym |
2 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit historyPickard-Cambridge, O. (1882c). On new genera and species of Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(3): 423-442, pl. 29-31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x
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