- From above
- Oblique view, face on
- Side view
- Underneath
- Another specimen
- Spider with parasite worm?
- Strongly coloured with dark leg bands
- Another specimen from above
- Green specimen, Oct 2009, Enoggera Creek
- Green specimen
- Female from side
- Female in alcohol from side
- Female genitalia
- Female adult Walton Bridge Reserve 300111
- Female adult Walton Bridge Reserve in alcohol 310111
- Female genitalia Walton Bridge Reserve in alcohol 310111
- References
This spider is found in green vegetation in rainforest and eucalypt forests in Australia. It has a pantropical distribution, being found in most wamer areas of the world. Females have a body length to 4 mm, males to 3.5 mm. Usually only observed on silk when it is shaken off its foliage. Chrysso presumably means golden, and pulcherrima beautiful, from the Latin. In English the word pulchritude means beauty. This species was originally give the name Arygyrodes pulcherrimus. It was changed to Chrysso by Levi. Yoshida has suggested it revert to Meotipa, first suggested by Petrunkevitch in 1930, but this suggestion has not yet been accepted. Despite being placed in a different subfamily this spider is quite similar in ghabitat and behaviour to Thwaitesia.
![Cyclosa sp](../_dbase_upl/P1012179-26-01-08a.jpg)
From above
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1120330_06-04-09.jpg)
Oblique view, face on
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1120337_06-04-09.jpg)
Side view
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1120340_06-04-09.jpg)
Underneath
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1120346_06-04-09.jpg)
Another specimen
Collected mid June 2009 on the northern side of the junction of Fish and Enoggera Creeks, Walton Bridge Reserve, The Gap.
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1170127_20-06-09.jpg)
Spider with parasite worm?
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1170550_26-06-09.jpg)
Strongly coloured with dark leg bands
The leg bands bring to mind that this spider must be closely related to Thwaitesia.
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1010334_10-10-09.jpg)
Another specimen from above
Not the same specimen as the One above
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1010312_10-10-09.jpg)
Green specimen, Oct 2009, Enoggera Creek
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1020231-10-22-09-rjw.jpg)
Green specimen
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1020227-10-22-09-rjw.jpg)
Female from side
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1090556_23-01-10_rjw.jpg)
Female in alcohol from side
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1040365_11-04-09_rjw.jpg)
Female genitalia
![Chrysso pulcherrima](../_dbase_upl/P1040334_11-04-09_rjw.jpg)
Female adult Walton Bridge Reserve 300111
![Chrysso](../_dbase_upl/Chr_pul_wbrP1040820.jpg)
Female adult Walton Bridge Reserve in alcohol 310111
![Chrysso](../_dbase_upl/Chr_pul_4mmP1170074_rw_310111a.jpg)
Female genitalia Walton Bridge Reserve in alcohol 310111
![Chrysso](../_dbase_upl/Chr_pul_4mm1170079_rw_310111.jpg)
References
- The Find-a-spider Guide by Dr Ron Atkinson - University of Southern Queensland
A guide to spiders in South-east Queensland