Chrysometa
TaxonChrysometa
AuthoritySimon, 1894[1]
Type speciesC. tenuipes
Type species authority(Keyserling, 1864)
Subdivision ranksSpecies
Subdivision146, see text
Synonyms

Chrysometa is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[3] It is a senior synonym of Capichameta.[2]

Species

As of October 2019 it contains 146 species, found in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and Mexico:[1]

In synonymy:

  • C. alticola (Berland, 1913, T from Meta) = Chrysometa zelotypa (Keyserling, 1883)
  • C. ribeiroi (Soares & Camargo, 1955) = Chrysometa guttata (Keyserling, 1881)
  • C. superans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) = Chrysometa alboguttata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889)
  • C. uncata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903) = Chrysometa brevipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889)

References

  1. ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chrysometa Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. ^ Levi, H. W. (1986). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Chrysometa and Homalometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 151: 99.
  3. ^ Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973