World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

In synonymy:

Polyacantha van Hasselt, 1882 = Aranoethra Butler, 1873 (Bonnet, 1958: 3749)

Gen. Aranoethra Butler, 1873 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01442

type Gasteracantha cambridgei Butler, 1873; gender feminine

N.B.: described as subgenus of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833, elevated to genus by Karsch, 1878c: 322; considered a senior synonym of the superfluous new name Polyacantha van Hasselt, 1882: 15 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06384] by Bonnet, 1958: 3749.

In synonymy:

Aranoethra ungari Karsch, 1878 = Aranoethra cambridgei (Butler, 1873) (Lessert, 1930: 661)

Aranoethra butleri Pocock, 1900 | | West Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015335

Aranoethra butleri Pocock, 1900g: 860, pl. 55, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Aranoethra cambridgei (Butler, 1873) | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015336 TYPE SPECIES

Gasteracantha (Aranoethra) cambridgei Butler, 1873a: 175, pl. 4, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Aranoethra ungari Karsch, 1878c: 322, pl. 9, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015337]

Aranoethra cambridgei Lessert, 1930: (S of Aranoethra ungari)

Aranoethra cambridgei Emerit, 1982c: 465, f. 5-6 (Dm)