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Male (holotype). Total length 1.84: cephalothorax 0.92 long, 0.71 wide; abdomen 0.92 long, 0.82 wide, 0.92 high. Carapace longer than wide, yellowish, lateral margin with thin black striations, anterior median with a triangular black patch. Only anterior part with several gray setae. Cervical groove yellowish. Median furrow yellowish, almost triangle. Each eye with a black ring. Both the eye rows recurved from dorsal view (Fig. 7). Diameters of eyes: AME 0.05, ALE 0.04, PME 0.04, PLE 0.04. Interdistances of eyes: AME–AME 0.10, AME–ALE 0.03, ALE–ALE 0.33, PME–PME 0.10, PME–PLE 0.08, PLE–PLE 0.38, ALE and PLE closed to each other. MOA long 0.13, front width 0.18, back width 0.18. Clypeus 0.20 high and furnished with few short gray setae. Chelicerae armed with sparse gray setae, promargin with 2 teeth, fangs short and thin. Endites, labium and sternum yellowish. Anterior margin of endites armed with gray scopula. Sternum furnished with sparse gray setae. Legs yellowish, the end of tibia with gray spots. Measurements of legs: leg I 7.14 (1.94, 0.41, 1.94, 1.63, 1.22), II 3.69 (1.33, 0.31, 0.82, 0.82, 0.41), III 2.14 (0.71, 0.20, 0.31, 0.61, 0.31), IV 3.86 (1.12, 0.31, 0.82, 1.20, 0.41). Leg formula: 1423.
Abdomen oval, longer than wide and armed with brown setae. Dorsum yellowish, anterior part with a pair of black patches (Fig. 7). Venter yellowish. Spinnerets yellowish.
Apical cymbium of male palp acuate; embolus big, thick, and end with a thin ramus; conductor membranous, falciform from ventral view; apex of median apophysis with some small tubers (Figs 8–9).
Female (one paratype from Limu Mountain) total length 2.32: cephalothorax 0.92 long, 0.71 wide; abdomen 1.43 long, 1.22 wide, 1.43 high. Diameters of eyes: AME 0.05, ALE 0.05, PME 0.03, PLE 0.05. Interdistances of eyes: AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.02, ALE–ALE 0.30, PME–PME 0.09, PME–PLE 0.08, PLE–PLE 0.33, ALE and PLE closed to each other. MOA long 0.13, front width 0.15, back width 0.15. Clypeus 0.30 high. Measurements of legs: leg I 7.75 (2.24, 0.51, 1.94, 2.35, 0.71), II 3.59 (1.24, 0.31, 0.71, 0.92, 0.41), III 2.04 (0.71, 0.20, 0.31, 0.51, 0.31), IV 3.79 (1.24, 0.31, 0.81, 1.02, 0.41). Leg formula: 1423. Dorsal abdomen yellowish. Other characters as in holotype.
Female genitalia lightly sclerotized, and with a circular atrium and a large posterior lobe; spermathecae big, oval; copulatory ducts short, thick and connected with spermathecae from anterior part; each fertilization duct with a global head (Figs 10–12).
The new species with putative Chrysso synapomorphies as follow:(1) carapace pars stridens smooth; (2) abdomen extending beyond spinnerets; (3) cymbial hood of male palp broad; (4) subconductor of male palp present; (5) median apophysis of male palp with apophysis; (6) palpal claw of female dentition sparse; (7) anterior margin of female genital atrium medially acute.
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- Bao-Shi Zhang, Feng Zhang
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- Zhang B, Zhang F (2012) Two new spider species of the genus Chrysso O. P.-Cambridge, 1882 (Araneae, Theridiidae) in Hainan Island, China ZooKeys 190: 21–31
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- Bao-Shi Zhang
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- Feng Zhang