Chrysometa

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Chrysometa

| authority = Simon, 1894

| type_species = C. tenuipes

| type_species_authority = (Keyserling, 1864)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 146, see text

| synonyms =

  • Capichameta Soares & Camargo, 1955

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Chrysometa is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} It is a senior synonym of Capichameta.{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1986| title=The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Chrysometa and Homalometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=151| page=99}}

Species

{{as of|2019|10}} it contains 146 species, found in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and Mexico:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chrysometa Simon, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-11-10| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3274| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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)

See also

References