Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Maelfait, Jean-Pierre, Desender, Konjev, Hendrickx, Frederik, Dekoninck, Wouter, Berthet, Mado, Bouckaert, Katia, Caudron, Julien & Leclercq, Marylise, 2023, Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands, Belgian Journal of Entomology 142, pp. 1-188 : 6

Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

( Figs 11-12 )

Gasteracantha insulana : BANKS (1902, 1924, 1930), BUTLER (1877), MARX (1889), SNODGRASS (1902);

Gasteracantha servillei : BAERT et al. (1990, 1991), ROTH & CRAIG (1970).

DISTRIBUTION: Nearctic and Neotropic.

GALÁPAGOS DISTRIBUTION: Daphne, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela (Cerro Aul, Sierra Negra, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Wolf) , Pinta, RÁbida, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago, S. Plaza.

REFERENCES: BAERT (2013c), BAERT & MAELFAIT (1986b), BAERT & MAELFAIT (1986c), BAERT & MAELFAIT (2000b), BAERT et al. (1989a), BAERT et al. (1989b), BAERT et al. (1990), BAERT et al. (1991), BAERT et al. (2008b), BANKS (1902), BANKS (1924), BANKS (1930), BUTLER (1877), LEVI (1978), LEVI (1996), LUBIN (1985), MARX (1889), ROTH & CRAIG (1970), SNODGRASS (1902).

Figures

Fig. 11. Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758). A-C, male right palp. A, retro-lateral view. B, frontal view. C, dorsal view. © M. Leclercq.

Fig. 12. Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758). A, female, lateral view. B, female spinners. C, female epigynum. © M. Leclercq.