World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Aetrocantha Karsch, 1879 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01429

type Aetrocantha falkensteini Karsch, 1879; gender feminine

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 by Benoit, 1962a: 43; not a senior synonym of Paurotylus Tullgren, 1910 (Emerit, 1982c: 458, contra Benoit, 1964a: 47).

In synonymy:

Aetrocantha galeata (Simon, 1887, T from Isoxya) = Aetrocantha falkensteini Karsch, 1879 (Benoit, 1964a: 47)

Aetrocantha falkensteini Karsch, 1879 | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014465 TYPE SPECIES

Aetrocantha falkensteinii Karsch, 1879a: 332 (Df) Original description

Isoxia falkensteini Simon, 1887a: 268

Isoxia galeata Simon, 1887a: 269, pl. 6, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057826]

Gasteracantha galeata Simon, 1895a: 843, f. 891 (f)

Gasteracantha galeata Simon, 1907d: 301 (Dm)

Gasteracantha falkensteini Dahl, 1914: 255

Isoxya galeata Benoit, 1962a: 23, f. 16 (T from Gasteracantha)

Aetrocantha falkensteini Benoit, 1962a: 43, f. 28-29 (f, T from Gasteracantha)

Aetrocantha falkensteini Benoit, 1964a: 47 (S of Isoxya galeata and Paurotylus depressus [rejected by Emerit, 1982c: 458, see Gasteracantha milvoides])

Aetrocantha falkensteini Emerit, 1982c: 459, f. 1-3, pl. 1, f. 1B, pl. 2 (m)