Kryptochroma

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
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

See also

• Stephanopis
• Thomisus
• List of Thomisidae genera