World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Augusta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01447

type Augusta papilionacea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877; gender feminine; syn. of Augusta glyphica (Guérin, 1839)

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 by Emerit, 1974: 32 (contra Simon, 1895a: 845).

In synonymy:

Augusta papilionacea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 = Augusta glyphica (Guérin, 1839) (Simon, 1895a: 840, sub Gansteracantha)

Augusta glyphica (Guérin, 1839) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015456 TYPE SPECIES

Gasteracantha glyphica Guérin, 1839: 110 (Df) Original description

Augusta papilionacea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877c: 37, pl. 7, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065569]

Gastheracantha glyphica Simon, 1895a: 840 (S of Augusta papilionacea)

Augusta glyphica Emerit, 1974: 33, f. 3A-B, 4A-F, 5A-C, 6B (Dm, f, T from Gasteracantha)

Augusta glyphica Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 372, f. 4 (m)