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Gasteracantha has a complex taxonomic history, and many questions of species limits and distribution and generic interrelationships remain unanswered. Furthermore, challenges include the variability within individual Gasteracantha species (e.g., color polymorphism and variable length and shape of spines), a lack of male specimens and descriptions for many species, missing or damaged type ...
Gasteracantha cancriformis [2] (spinybacked orbweaver) is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World. [1]The genus name Gasteracantha derives from the Greek words γαστήρ (gaster, "belly") and ἄκανθα (acantha, "thorn"), while the specific epithet cancriformis derives from the Latin words cancer ("crab") and forma ("shape, form ...
Gasteracantha versicolor, known as the long-winged kite spider, [citation needed] is a species of diurnal spiny orb-weaver of the family Araneidae. It is found in the tropics and sub-tropics, where it occurs in forests. It has an extensive range, from central, east and southern Africa to Madagascar.
Gasteracantha fornicata is a small spider that displays multiple morphs in size and colour. It has exoskeletal spines across its dorsal side. The wide cephalothorax structure of Gasteracantha may prevent it from being as mobile compared to spiders of similar size. [4] Males are typically two millimeters while females grow up to twelve millimeters.
Gasteracantha quadrispinosa, the four-spined jewel spider, is a brightly coloured species of spider in the spiny orb-weaver genus Gasteracantha. [2] It occurs in wet forests of Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea, [1] [3] where it builds vertical orb webs approximately 1.5 m across and hangs in the centre of the web to wait for prey.
Gasteracantha sanguinolenta emeriti Roberts, 1983 — Aldabra; Gasteracantha sanguinolenta insulicola Emerit, 1974 — Seychelles; Gasteracantha sanguinolenta legendrei Emerit, 1974 — Europa Islands; Gasteracantha sanguinolenta mangrovae Emerit, 1974 — Madagascar; Gasteracantha sanguinolenta rueppelli (Strand, 1916) — Egypt
Gasteracantha clavigera is a ... In a 1995 book titled Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia, A.T. Barrion and J.A. Litsinger described a spider from Luzon ...
Gasteracantha flava is a species of spider described in 1849 from Chile. [1] The spider's abdomen bears 14 spines (six on each side and two in the rear) and is yellow in color with brown or black sigilla and a strongly wrinkled ventral side. [2] The World Spider Catalog currently treats this taxon as a spiny orb-weaver spider in the genus ...