Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Chrysometa

Chrysometa bolivia Levi, 1986

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-05-20
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013467]
  • Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS/KBIN), Brussels, Belgium; f (Peñaherrera-R., 2025)
Taxonomic references
Tetragnatha tenuipes Keyserling, 1864: 147, pl. 7, f. 14 (m; misidentified per Levi, 1986a: 196).
Argyroepeira tenuipes Keyserling, 1893: 335, pl. 17, f. 247c (m; misidentified per Levi, 1986a: 196).
Chrysometa bolivia Levi, 1986a: 204, f. 703-710 (Dmf).
Chrysometa bolivia Peñaherrera-R., 2025: 512, f. 1A-D, 2A-C, 3A-C, 4A (mf).
References

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1986a). The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Chrysometa and Homalometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151(3): 91-215. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P. (2025). On some Chrysometa Simon, 1894 species collected from Ecuador: redescription of C. bolivia, description of a new species, and comments on the type locality of C. otavalo (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 5636(3): 511-522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.6 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-05-19 New taxonomic reference entry Peñaherrera-R., 2025 n/a
2025-05-19 Species distribution update Peñaherrera-R., 2025 n/a (Old value)