Taxon details
Chikunia nigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2023-09-30
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007254]
- Distribution: India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan, Indonesia
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- Holotype: College of Environment and Plant Protection, Hainan University (HANU), Haikou, China; f of Chrysso yulingu (Barrion et al., 2013)
- Paratype: College of Environment and Plant Protection, Hainan University (HANU), Haikou, China; 1f of Chrysso yulingu (Barrion et al., 2013)
Theridion oxyurum Thorell, 1890a: 266 (Df).
Theridion nigrum Simon, 1905c: 58.
Theridula caudata Saitō, 1933b: 44, pl. 3, f. 4 (Df).
Chrysso nigra Levi, 1962b: 209, f. 1-2 (Tmf from Theridion).
Theridula caudata Lee, 1966: 30, f. 7e-g (f).
Chrysso nigra Yoshida, 1978a: 23, f. 4 (m, S).
Theridula caudata Hu, 1984: 174, f. 182.1-5 (f).
Chrysso nigra Yoshida, 1993c: 33, f. 15, 18-19 (m).
Chrysso nigra Zhu, 1998: 53, f. 27A-E (mf).
Chrysso nigra Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 103, f. 49G-H, O (mf).
Chrysso nigra Yin et al., 2012: 298, f. 110a-d (mf).
Chikunia nigra Grinsted, Agnarsson & Bilde, 2012: 1027 (Tmf from Chrysso).
Chrysso yulingu Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, in Barrion et al., 2013: 36, f. 40A-F (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048452].
Chrysso nigra Jin, 2018: 17, f. 4-6.A-D, pl. 3 (f).
Chikunia nigra Smith et al., 2019: 341, f. 1A-C, 6A-L, 9A-I (mf).
Chikunia nigra Lin et al., 2023a: 520 (S of Chrysso yulingu).
Barrion, A. T., Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A., Catindig, J. L. A., Villareal M., O., Cai, D., Yuan, Q. H. & Heong, K. L. (2013). New species of spiders (Araneae) from Hainan Island, China. UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History 3: 1-103. doi:10.5281/zenodo.269136 
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Grinsted, L., Agnarsson, I. & Bilde, T. (2012). Subsocial behaviour and brood adoption in mixed-species colonies of two theridiid spiders. Naturwissenschaften 99(12): 1021-1030. doi:10.1007/s00114-012-0983-4 -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. -- Show included taxa
Jin, C. (2018). Theridiidae, Ctenidae, Liocranidae. In: Zhang, F. & Xue, X. F. (eds.) Fauna of Tianmu Mountain. Volume II. Arachnida. Araneae Eriophyoidea. Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, pp. 11-33, 79-80, 90-91, pl. 2-7, 17, 19. -- Show included taxa
Lee, C. L. (1966). [Spiders of Formosa (Taiwan)]. Taichung Junior Teachers College Publisher, 84 pp. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1962b). More American spiders of the genus Chrysso (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 69(4): 209-237. doi:10.1155/1962/32404 -- Show included taxa
Lin, Y. J., Wu, L. B., Cai, D. C., Li, S. Q., Barrion, A. T. & Heong, K. L. (2023a). Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 5351(5): 501-533. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.1 -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880b). On some new and little known spiders of the genus Argyrodes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 48(2): 320-344, pl. 28-30. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1880.tb06563.x -- Show included taxa
Saitō, S. (1933b). Notes on the spiders from Formosa. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 13(1): 32-60, pl. 3. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1905c). Arachnides de Java, recueillis par le Prof. K. Kraepelin en 1904. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22: 49-73. -- Show included taxa
Smith, C., Cotter, A., Grinsted, L., Bowolaksono, A., Watiniasih, N. L. & Agnarsson, I. (2019). In a relationship: sister species in mixed colonies, with a description of new Chikunia species (Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186(2): 337-252. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly083 -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1890a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 28: 5-421. -- Show included taxa
Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (1978a). On some Formosan spiders (1). Atypus 71: 21-28. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (1993c). East Asian species of the genus Chrysso (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 42(1): 27-34. doi:10.2476/asjaa.42.27 -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | New taxonomic reference entry | Lin et al., 2023a | n/a |
| 2023-09-30 | Species synonymy | Lin et al., 2023a | Chikunia yulingu synonymized with Chikunia nigra |
| 2022-04-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Jin, 2018 | n/a |
| 2019-05-27 | Species distribution update | Smith et al., 2019 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2019-05-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Smith et al., 2019 | n/a |
| 2015-04-20 | New taxonomic reference entry | Grinsted, Agnarsson & Bilde, 2012 | n/a |
| 2015-04-20 | Species transferred to new genus | Grinsted, Agnarsson & Bilde, 2012 | Species transferred from Chrysso to Chikunia |