Kryptochroma
Genus of crab spiders
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Kryptochroma is a genus of South American bark-dwelling crab spiders erected by M. Machado, R. Viecelli, and C. Guzati in 2021 after a phylogenetic analysis showed that Stephanopis contained two distinctly different clades.[2] The genus was created for the "pentacantha" clade, as well as for several newly described species.[2][1]
| Kryptochroma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Kryptochroma Machado, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| Stephanopis pentacantha (Mello-Leitão, 1929) | |
| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species
As of April 2022[update] it contains nine species:[1]
- K. gigas Machado & Viecelli, 2021 – Brazil
- K. hilaris Machado & Teixeira, 2021 – Brazil
- K. macrostyla (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
- K. parahybana (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – French Guiana, Brazil
- K. pentacantha (Mello-Leitão, 1929) (type) – Brazil
- K. quadrata Machado & Viecelli, 2021 – Brazil
- K. quinquetuberculata (Taczanowski, 1872) – Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil
- K. renipalpis (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
- K. septata Machado & Teixeira, 2021 – Brazil
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