''Chrosiothes'' is a

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comb-footed spiders Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes over 3,000 spec ...

that was first described by

Eugène Louis Simon Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".colulus Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or ...

. Males are noticeably smaller than females. Females of ''C. jamaicensis'' are about long, while males are only about . They are closely related to members of '' Episinus'', '' Spintharus'', ''

Thwaitesia ''Thwaitesia'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881. The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites. ''T. affinis'' females are long, and males are long. ''T. bracteata'' a ...

'' and ''

Anelosimus ''Anelosimus'' is a cosmopolitan genus of cobweb spiders (Theridiidae), currently containing 74 species. ''Anelosimus'' is a key group in the study of sociality and its evolution in spiders (Aviles 1997). It contains species spanning the spectr ...

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it contains twenty-seven species that occurs almost exclusively in the New World from the United States to

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

, with one species found in China,

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and Japan, and two species endemic to

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: *'' Chrosiothes carajaensis'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 –

*'' Chrosiothes chirica'' (

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, 1954) – USA,

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

*'' 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) –

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*'' Chrosiothes fulvus'' Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 –

*'' Chrosiothes goodnightorum'' (Levi, 1954) – Mexico to Costa Rica *'' Chrosiothes iviei'' Levi, 1964 – USA *'' Chrosiothes jamaicensis'' Levi, 1964 –

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

, Dominican Rep. *'' Chrosiothes jenningsi'' Piel, 1995 – USA *'' Chrosiothes jocosus'' ( Gertsch & 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 Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

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Chrosiothes perfidus ''Chrosiothes perfidus'' is a species of comb-footed spider in the family Theridiidae Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first desc ...

'' Marques & Buckup, 1997 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes portalensis'' Levi, 1964 – USA, Mexico *'' Chrosiothes proximus'' ( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico to Panama *'' Chrosiothes silvaticus'' Simon, 1894 (

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

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, 1906) –

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

*'' Chrosiothes taiwan'' Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000 – Taiwan *'' Chrosiothes tonala'' (Levi, 1954) – Mexico to Honduras *'' Chrosiothes una'' Puchulú-Figueiredo, Santanna & Rodrigues, 2017 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes valmonti'' (Simon, 1898) – St. Vincent *'' Chrosiothes venturosus'' Marques & Buckup, 1997 – Brazil *'' Chrosiothes wagneri'' (Levi, 1954) – Mexico Formerly included: *''C. australis'' (Simon, 1896) (Transferred to '' Episinus'')

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