World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Togacantha Dahl, 1914 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01570

type Gasteracantha nordviei Strand, 1913; gender feminine

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

Togacantha nordviei (Strand, 1913) | | West, Central, East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017088 TYPE SPECIES

Gasteracantha nordviei Strand, 1913a: 386 (Df) Original description

Gasteracantha simoni Dahl, 1914: 252, f. 6 (f; misidentified per Benoit, 1962a: 16)

Isoxya (Togacantha) nordviei Benoit, 1962a: 16, f. 12-13 (f, removed from S of Gasteracantha simoni, rejecting Dahl, 1914: 252)

Togacantha nordviei Emerit, 1982b: 163, pl. 1A, f. 3 (f)

Togacantha nordviei Emerit, 1982c: 461, f. 2A-D (Dm)