Chikunia nigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)

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

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

Chikunia nigra Grinsted et al., 2012: 1027; 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 .