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Chrysso

Chrysso cobweb spiders

chrysso.sp1

Bulbous palps, with ant-like body that is yellow and brown. Abdomen and legs are yellow. There are distinctive hairs on bottom of femur, with brown cephalothorax, and  brown marking near the top of the abdomen, and two brown bands on the top and base of abdomen connected by faint band.

2019.YSN.W3.7

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Locations: Estación Biológica Yasuní, Ecuador (250 m.a.s.l.)

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chrysso.sp2

Whole body is solid cream, with two slit-like dots on ventral abdomen.

2018.JAS.E.114

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Locations: Jatun Sacha Biological Station, Ecuador (400 m.a.s.l.)

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chrysso.sp3

Mostly cream-coloured, with two lung-shaped markings on ventral abdomen, one marking on the tip of abdomen, dark legs and eyes, squid-like shape, and brown 'smiley-face' marking on ventral thorax in sporadically placed dots

2018.JAS.W3.14

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Locations: Jatun Sacha Biological Station, Ecuador (400 m.a.s.l.)

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chrysso.sp4

Elongated orange cephalothorax with black mask over white eyes. Teardrop-shaped cream abdomen with large black circular markings. White and yellow striped legs. White hairs on legs and pedipalps.

2019.BGL.W7.21

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Locations: Reserva Biologica del Rio Bigal, Ecuador (900 m.a.s.l.)

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2019.BGL.W7.21

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