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Species

it contains twenty-seven species that occurs almost exclusively in the New World from the United States to Brazil, with one species found in China, Korea and Japan, and two species endemic to Taiwan: *'' Chrosiothes carajaensis'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes chirica'' ( Levi, 1954) – USA, Mexico *'' Chrosiothes cicuta'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes decorus'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes diabolicus'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' 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, Dominican Rep. *'' Chrosiothes jenningsi'' Piel, 1995 – USA *'' Chrosiothes jocosus'' (

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& Davis, 1936) – USA, Mexico *'' Chrosiothes litus'' Levi, 1964 – Mexico *'' Chrosiothes minusculus'' (Gertsch, 1936) – USA, Mexico *'' Chrosiothes murici'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes niteroi'' Levi, 1964 –

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, Brazil, Argentina *'' Chrosiothes perfidus'' Marques & Buckup, 1997 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes portalensis'' Levi, 1964 – USA, Mexico *'' Chrosiothes proximus'' (

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) – USA to Ecuador *'' Chrosiothes sudabides'' (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) –

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*'' Chrosiothes taiwan'' Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 – Taiwan *'' Chrosiothes tonala'' (Levi, 1954) – Mexico to Honduras *'' Chrosiothes una'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *''

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'' (Simon, 1898) – St. Vincent *'' Chrosiothes venturosus'' Marques & Buckup, 1997 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes wagneri'' (Levi, 1954) – Mexico Formerly included: *''C. australis'' (Simon, 1896) (Transferred to ''

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