''Chrysometa'' is a

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of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. It is a senior synonym of ''Capichameta''.

Species

it contains 146 species, found in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and

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 ...

: *'' C. acinosa'' Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 –

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

*'' C. adelis''

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, 1986 –

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

*'' C. alajuela'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica to Colombia *'' C. alboguttata'' ( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Colombia *'' C. allija'' Levi, 1986 –

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

*'' C. antonio'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. aramba'' Levi, 1986 –

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 ...

*'' C. atotonilco'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 –

*'' C. aureola'' (Keyserling, 1884) – Brazil,

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

*'' C. banos'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. bella'' ( Banks, 1909) –

Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...

*'' C. bigibbosa'' (Keyserling, 1864) – Colombia *'' C. bolivari'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. bolivia'' Levi, 1986 –

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

, Colombia *'' C. boquete'' Levi, 1986 –

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

, Colombia *'' C. boraceia'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil,

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

*'' C. brevipes'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico,

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

*'' C. browni'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. buenaventura'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. buga'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. butamalal'' Levi, 1986 – Chile *'' C. cali'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. calima'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. cambara'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. candianii'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. carmelo'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. cebolleta'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. chica'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. chipinque'' Levi, 1986 – Mexico, Guatemala *'' C. choroni'' Levi, 1986 –

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

*'' C. chulumani'' Levi, 1986 – Bolivia *'' C. churitepui'' Levi, 1986 – Venezuela *'' C. citlaltepetl'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. claudia'' Levi, 1986 – Venezuela *'' C. columbicola'' Strand, 1916 – Colombia *'' C. conspersa'' (Bryant, 1945) –

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...

*'' C. cornuta'' (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola *'' C. craigae'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica *'' C. cuenca'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. decolorata'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Guatemala *'' C. digua'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. distincta'' (Bryant, 1940) –

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

*'' C. donachui'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. duida'' Levi, 1986 – Venezuela *'' C. eberhardi'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. ecarup'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. eugeni'' Levi, 1986 –

Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...

, St. Vincent *'' C. explorans'' (

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, 1916) –

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

*'' C. fidelia'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. flava'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – Mexico to Brazil *'' C. flavicans'' ( Caporiacco, 1947) – Brazil,

Guyana Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic British West Indies. entry "Guyana" Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the co ...

Suriname Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a Human Development Index, high level of human development; i ...

*'' C. fuscolimbata'' ( Archer, 1958) –

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 ...

*'' C. guadeloupensis'' Levi, 1986 –

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...

*'' C. guttata'' (Keyserling, 1881) – Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil *'' C. hamata'' (Bryant, 1942) –

Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...

*'' C. heredia'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica *'' C. huanuco'' Levi, 1986 – Peru *'' C. huila'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia, Ecuador *'' C. incachaca'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. itaimba'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. jayuyensis'' ( Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico *'' C. jelskii'' Levi, 1986 – Peru *'' C. jordao'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. keyserlingi'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. kochalkai'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. lancetilla'' Levi, 1986 –

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

*'' C. lapazensis'' Levi, 1986 – Bolivia *'' C. lepida'' (Keyserling, 1881) – Peru *'' C. levii'' Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 – Chile *'' C. linguiformis'' (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba, Jamaica *'' C. lomanhungae'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. ludibunda'' (Keyserling, 1893) – Brazil, Paraguay *'' C. luisi'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. machala'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador, Peru *'' C. macintyrei'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. macuchi'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador, Peru *'' C. maculata'' (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola *'' C. magdalena'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. maitae'' Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 – Chile *'' C. malkini'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. marta'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. merida'' Levi, 1986 – Venezuela *'' C. minuta'' (Keyserling, 1883) – Brazil *'' C. minza'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. monticola'' (Keyserling, 1883) – Peru *'' C. muerte'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica to Colombia *'' C. niebla'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. nigroventris'' (Keyserling, 1879) – Colombia or Panama *'' C. nigrovittata'' (Keyserling, 1865) – Colombia, Ecuador *'' C. nubigena'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. nuboso'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica *'' C. nuevagranada'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. obscura'' (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola *'' C. opulenta'' (Keyserling, 1881) – Peru, Brazil *'' C. otavalo'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. palenque'' Levi, 1986 – Mexico to Honduras *'' C. pecki'' Levi, 1986 – Jamaica *'' C. pena'' Simó, Álvarez & Laborda, 2016 – Uruguay *'' C. penai'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. petrasierwaldae'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. pichincha'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. pilimbala'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. plana'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. poas'' Levi, 1986 – Mexico to Panama *'' C. puebla'' Levi, 1986 – Mexico *'' C. purace'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. puya'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. ramon'' Levi, 1986 – Peru *'' C. raripila'' (Keyserling, 1893) – Brazil *'' C. rincon'' Levi, 1986 – Mexico *'' C. rosarium'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. rubromaculata'' (Keyserling, 1864) – Colombia or Panama *'' C. sabana'' Levi, 1986 – Hispaniola *'' C. saci'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. sagicuta'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. saladito'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. santosi'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. saramacca'' Levi, 1986 – Venezuela, Peru, Suriname *'' C. satulla'' (Keyserling, 1881) – Peru *'' C. satura'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica *'' C. schneblei'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia, Ecuador *'' C. serachui'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. sevillano'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. sicki'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. sondo'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. sumare'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. sztolcmani'' Levi, 1986 – Peru *'' C. tenuipes'' (Keyserling, 1864) (

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) – Colombia *'' C. tinajillas'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. triangulosa'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. troya'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. tungurahua'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. uaza'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador, Colombia *'' C. unicolor'' (Keyserling, 1881) – Colombia or Panama *'' C. universitaria'' Levi, 1986 – Costa Rica, Panama *'' C. ura'' Levi, 1986 – Ecuador *'' C. utcuyacu'' Levi, 1986 – Peru *'' C. valle'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia *'' C. waikoxi'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. xamaticpac'' Salgueiro-Sepúlveda & Álvarez-Padilla, 2018 – Mexico *'' C. xavantina'' Levi, 1986 – Brazil *'' C. yanomami'' Nogueira, Pena-Barbosa, Venticinque & Brescovit, 2011 – Brazil *'' C. yotoco'' Levi, 1986 – Colombia, Venezuela *'' C. yungas'' Levi, 1986 – Bolivia *'' C. yunque'' Levi, 1986 – Puerto Rico *'' C. zelotypa'' (Keyserling, 1883) – Costa Rica to Peru 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

Tetragnathidae genera Spiders of Central America Spiders of Mexico Spiders of South America Tetragnathidae Taxa named by Eugène Simon Long stubs with short prose {{Tetragnathidae-stub

Species

See also

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