Chrosiothes

Chrosiothes
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female C. niteroi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Chrosiothes Simon, 1894
Species
See text.
Diversity
21 species

Chrosiothes is a spider genus that occurs almost exclusively in the New World from the USA to Brazil, with one species found in China, Korea and Japan, and two species endemic to Taiwan.

They have two minute setae in place of a colulus, and thick legs. The males are noticeably smaller than the females: for example in C. jamaicensis the female is 2.9mm long, the male only 1.6mm.

The genera Episinus, Spintharus, Thwaitesia and Anelosimus are closely related.

Species

• Chrosiothes chirica (Levi, 1954) (USA, Mexico)
• Chrosiothes episinoides (Levi, 1963) (Chile)
• Chrosiothes fulvus Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 (Taiwan)
• Chrosiothes goodnightorum (Levi, 1954) (Mexico to Costa Rica)
• Chrosiothes iviei Levi, 1964 (USA)
• Chrosiothes jamaicensis Levi, 1964 (Jamaica, Dominica)
• Chrosiothes jenningsi Piel, 1995 (USA)
• Chrosiothes jocosus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) (USA, Mexico)
• Chrosiothes litus Levi, 1964 (Mexico)
• Chrosiothes minusculus (Gertsch, 1936) (USA, Mexico)
• Chrosiothes niteroi Levi, 1964 (Bolivia, Brazil)
• Chrosiothes perfidus Marques & Buckup, 1997 (Brazil)
• Chrosiothes portalensis Levi, 1964 (USA, Mexico)
• Chrosiothes proximus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1899) (Mexico to Panama)
• Chrosiothes silvaticus Simon, 1894 (USA to Ecuador)
• Chrosiothes sudabides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (China, Korea, Japan)
• Chrosiothes taiwan Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 (Taiwan)
• Chrosiothes tonala (Levi, 1954) (Mexico to Honduras)
• Chrosiothes valmonti (Simon, 1897) (St. Vincent)
• Chrosiothes venturosus Marques & Buckup, 1997 (Brazil)
• Chrosiothes wagneri (Levi, 1954) (Mexico)

References

• Levi, H.W. (1964). The Spider Genera Stemmops, Chrosiothes, and the New Genus Cabello from America. Psyche 71:73-92. PDF