Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Detail
Gen. Afracantha Dahl, 1914 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01430] Detail
type Afracantha batesi Dahl, 1914; gender feminine; syn. of Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899)
N.B.: described as a subgenus of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833; elevated to genus by Emerit, 1974: 29.
In synonymy:
Afracantha batesi (Pocock, 1900, T from Gasteracantha) = Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899) (Benoit, 1962a: 25, sub Isoxya ).
Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899) * | f | Cameroon, DR Congo, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014466]
Gasteracantha brevispina camerunensis Thorell, 1899: 65 (Df).
Gasteracantha batesi Pocock, 1900g: 858, pl. 56, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060880].
Gasteracantha (Afracantha) batesi Dahl, 1914: 252, f. 7 (f, S of Gasteracantha brevispina camerunensis).
Isoxya camerunensis Benoit, 1962a: 25, f. 18 (f, T from Gasteracantha, removed from S of Gasteracantha batesi, rejecting Dahl, 1914: 252, S of Gasteracantha batesi).
Afracantha camerunensis Emerit, 1974: 29 (T from Isoxya).
Gasteracantha camerunensis Levi, 1996b: 143, f. 313-321 (f).
Afracantha camerunensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 11, p. 10: 4 unnumbered f., p. 11: 7 unnumbered f. f (f).
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