A nymph whom Eumelus names as the mother of Arcas' two sons Elatus and Aphidas — Apollodorus' third some-say beside Leanira daughter of Amyclas and Meganira daughter of Croco.1
In Apollodorus' Arcadian roll, Arcas had two sons, Elatus and Aphidas, by Leanira daughter of Amyclas, or by Meganira daughter of Croco, or — according to Eumelus — by the nymph Chrysopelia. The brothers divided the land between them, but Elatus held all the power.2⚖
Pausanias instead makes Arcas' wife a Dryad nymph named Erato, by whom he had Azan, Apheidas, and Elatus — a rival reckoning that omits Chrysopelia entirely and gives different sons. The atlas keeps Erato and Chrysopelia as separate nodes under topic `arcas-consort-mother`.3⚖
Apollodorus attests Chrysopelia only as a nymph, without river, spring, or tree sub-class in our seven lenses; the `-naiad` id suffix disambiguates this Arcadian figure from any homonym, not a sourced Naiad tag.4
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