Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Family Araneidae Phylum Arthropoda Order Spider | Subphylum Chelicerata Infraorder Araneomorphae Scientific name Thelacantha brevispina Rank Species | |
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Genus Thelacantha
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Thelacantha is a spider genus of the Araneidae family with only one described species, Thelacantha brevispina. The species is closely related to Gasteracantha, and was synonymized with it in 1859, but revalidated in 1974.
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Distribution
The species is found in Madagascar, in southern Asia from India to Philippines, Japan and Australia.
Taxonomy
Saito described three other Thelacantha species in 1933, which were later synonymized with T. brevispina. T. brevispina has quite often been misidentified as Gasteracantha mammosa, which is now G. cancriformis.
T. brevispina has gone through a checkered name history, with many synonyms:
Description
Females grow to a body size of about 6–10 mm, with males reaching a size of 3-5mm.
References
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