World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Afracantha Dahl, 1914 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01430

type Afracantha batesi Dahl, 1914; gender feminine; syn. of Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899)

N.B.: described as a subgenus of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833; elevated to genus by Emerit, 1974: 29.

In synonymy:

Afracantha batesi (Pocock, 1900, T from Gasteracantha) = Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899) (Benoit, 1962a: 25, sub Isoxya )

Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899) | | Cameroon, DR Congo, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014466 TYPE SPECIES

Gasteracantha brevispina camerunensis Thorell, 1899: 65 (Df) Original description

Gasteracantha batesi Pocock, 1900g: 858, pl. 56, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060880]

Gasteracantha (Afracantha) batesi Dahl, 1914: 252, f. 7 (f, S of Gasteracantha brevispina camerunensis)

Isoxya camerunensis Benoit, 1962a: 25, f. 18 (f, T from Gasteracantha, removed from S of Gasteracantha batesi, rejecting Dahl, 1914: 252, S of Gasteracantha batesi)

Afracantha camerunensis Emerit, 1974: 29 (T from Isoxya)

Gasteracantha camerunensis Levi, 1996b: 143, f. 313-321 (f)

Afracantha camerunensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 11, p. 10: 4 unnumbered f., p. 11: 7 unnumbered f. f (f)