Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864

Macharoenboon, Kongkit, Siriwut, Warut & Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, 2021, A review of the taxonomy of spiny-backed orb-weaving spiders of the subfamily Gasteracanthinae (Araneae, Araneidae) in Thailand, ZooKeys 1032, pp. 17-62 : 17

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scientific name	Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864
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Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864 View in CoL

Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864: 40. Type locality: East Indies.

Gasteracantha frontata Full list of synonyms and usage of the name available in World Spider Catalog (2020).

Remarks.

The abdomen of G. frontata is wider than long. Color of the abdomen is brownish yellow. Median spines of G. frontata are conical, and not elongated compared to other Gasteracantha species with a broad abdomen ( Blackwall 1864; Pickard-Cambridge 1879). Gasteracantha frontata were reported from Chanthaburi and Rayong provinces ( Simon 1886). However, we failed to obtain specimens from either area in this study.

Distribution.

East Indies, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Indonesia ( Simon 1886; World Spider Catalog 2020).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Araneidae
Genus	Gasteracantha