World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Hypsacantha Dahl, 1914 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01494

type Gasteracantha crucimaculata Dahl, 1914; gender feminine

N.B.: described as subgenus of Gastheracantha Sundevall, 1833; elevated to genus by Emerit, 1973: 688 and Emerit, 1974: 29.

Hypsacantha crucimaculata (Dahl, 1914) | | Central African Rep., DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016180 TYPE SPECIES

Gasteracantha (Hypsacantha) crucimaculata Dahl, 1914: 257, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Isoxya crucimaculata Benoit, 1962a: 31 (T from Gasteracantha)

Hypsacantha crucimaculata Emerit, 1973: 688, f. 6-7, pl. IIF-G (Dm, f, T from Isoxya)

Hypsacantha crucimaculata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 17, p. 16: 1 f., p. 17: 4 f. (f habitus)