Chikunia nigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 )

Lin, Yejie, Wu, Lingbing, Cai, Ducheng, Li, Shuqiang, Barrion, Alberto Tomas & Heong, Kong-Luen, 2023, Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae), Zootaxa 5351 (5), pp. 501-533 : 520

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.1
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scientific name	Chikunia nigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 )
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Treatment

Chikunia nigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) View in CoL View at ENA

Argyrodes nigra O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880: 341 , pl. 30, fig. 20 (♁ ♀).

Chrysso yulingu Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong View in CoL , in Barrion et al., 2013: 36, fig. 40A–F (♀). syn. nov.

Chikunia nigra Grinsted et al., 2012: 1027 View in CoL ; Smith et al., 2019: 341, fig. 1A–C, 6A–L, 9A–I (♁ ♀).

For a complete list of taxonomic references see World Spider Catalog (2023).

Type material of Chrysso yulingu (examined). Holotype ♀ (coll. no. Y06), CHINA: Hainan Island, Jianfengling , Yulingu Valley , 25.III–9.IV.2011, leg. A. T. Barrion et al .; Paratype: 1 ♀, same data as holotype .

Description and diagnosis. See Smith et al. (2019) for a comprehensive redescription and diagnosis.

Distribution. China (Hunan, Guangxi, Taiwan and Hainan), India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Comments. The female type material of Chrysso yulingu was examined and we could find no differences between C. yulingu and Chikunia nigra . Thus, we consider Chrysso yulingu syn. nov. to be a junior synonym of Chikunia nigra .