type Aranea arcuata Fabricius, 1793; gender feminine

N.B.: described as a subgenus of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833; elevated to genus by Emerit, 1974: 29.

In synonymy:
Macracantha blackwalli (Keyserling, 1864) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Dahl, 1914: 250, sub Gasteracantha).
Macracantha curvicauda (Vauthier, 1824) = Macracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793) (Simon, 1886a: 147, sub Actinacantha).
Macracantha fabricii (Simon, 1899) = Macracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793) (Dahl, 1914: 242, sub Gasteracantha).
Macracantha helva (Blackwall, 1864) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Thorell, 1887: 224, sub Plectana).
Macracantha hepatica (L. Koch, 1871) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Thorell, 1887: 224, sub Plectana).
Macracantha horrens (Thorell, 1859) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Thorell, 1887: 224, sub Plectana).
Macracantha parvula (Thorell, 1859) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Dahl, 1914: 250, sub Gasteracantha).
Macracantha perakensis (Simon, 1901) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Dahl, 1914: 250, sub Gasteracantha).
Macracantha pictospina (van Hasselt, 1882) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Thorell, 1887: 224, sub Plectana).
Macracantha propinqua (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Dahl, 1914: 250, sub Gasteracantha).
Macracantha tjibodensis (Strand, 1907) = Macracantha hasselti (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Dahl, 1914: 250, sub Gasteracantha).

Aranea arcuata Fabricius, 1793: 425 (Df).
Epeira curvicauda Vauthier, 1824: 261, pl. 18, f. 1-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062769].
Gasteracantha arcuata C. L. Koch, 1837a: 34, f. 270 (f).
Plectana curvicauda Walckenaer, 1841: 175.
Plectana arcuata Walckenaer, 1841: 177.
Plectana arcuata Doleschall, 1859: 42, pl. 12, f. 3 (f).
Macracantha curvicauda Simon, 1864: 287.
Macracantha arquata Simon, 1864: 287 (lapsus).
Gasteracantha curvicauda van Hasselt, 1882: 11.
Gasteracantha beccarii van Hasselt, 1882: 11, pl. 4, f. 1 (j; misidentified per Roewer, 1942a: 939).
Actinacantha arcuata Simon, 1886a: 147 (S of Gasteracantha curvicauda).
Gasteracantha fabricii Simon, 1899a: 94 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062770].
Gasteracantha arcuata Simon, 1903h: 301 (Dm).
Gasteracantha arcuata Simon, 1904b: 282, pl. 16, f. 4 (f).
Gasteracantha (Macracantha) arcuata Dahl, 1914: 242, f. 1 (f, S of Gasteracantha fabricii).
Macracantha arcuata Emerit, 1974: 29, 120 (T from Gasteracantha).
Gasteracantha arcuata Tikader, 1982a: 69, f. 139-142 (f).
Gasteracantha arcuata Yin et al., 1997d: 94, f. 23a-c (f).
Gasteracantha arcuata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 281, f. 167N-P, 168A-B, O (f).
Macracantha arcuata Tan et al., 2019a: 47, f. 1G, 11A-E (f).
Macracantha arcuata Macharoenboon, Siriwut & Jeratthitikul, 2021: 43, f. 9A-B, 12A-C (f).

Gasteracantha hasseltii C. L. Koch, 1837a: 29, f. 267 (Df).
Gasteracantha horrens Thorell, 1859: 303 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062771].
Gasteracantha parvula Thorell, 1859: 303 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062772].
Gasteracantha blackwalli Keyserling, 1864: 65, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062773].
Gasteracantha helva Blackwall, 1864b: 42 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062774].
Gasteracantha hepatica L. Koch, 1871: 8, pl. 1, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062775].
Gasteracantha helva O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879c: 287, pl. 27, f. 15 (f).
Gasteracantha propinqua O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879c: 288, pl. 27, f. 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062776].
Gasteracantha pictospina van Hasselt, 1882: 14, pl. 1, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062777].
Actinacantha pictispina Simon, 1885a: 37.
Actinacantha propinqua Simon, 1886a: 147.
Plectana hasselti Thorell, 1887: 224 (S of Gasteracantha helva, G. hepatica, G. horrens and G. pictospina).
Macracantha hasselti Thorell, 1887: (S.
Plectana blackwallii Thorell, 1890a: 68.
Gasteracantha hasselti Pocock, 1900a: 233.
Gasteracantha perakensis Simon, 1901k: 60 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062778].
Gasteracantha propinqua Simon, 1904b: 282, pl. 16, f. 5 (f).
Gasteracantha tjibodensis Strand, 1907m: 424 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062779].
Gasteracantha (Actinacantha) hasseltii Dahl, 1914: 250 (S of Gasteracantha blackwalli, G. parvula, G. perakensis, G. propinqua and G. tjibodensis).
Gasteracantha hasseltii Tikader, 1970: 41, f. 23b (f).
Actinacantha hasselti Emerit, 1974: 29.
Gasteracantha hasseltii Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 33, f. 47-49 (f).
Gasteracantha hasseltii Tikader, 1982a: 63, f. 127-130 (f).
Gasteracantha hasselti Yin et al., 1997d: 96, f. 25a-f (mf).
Gasteracantha hasselti Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 281, f. 168E-F, K-L, Q-R (mf).
Gasteracantha hasselti Yin et al., 2012: 581, f. 279a-f (mf).
Gasteracantha hasselti Sen et al., 2015: 108, f. 617-621, pl. 21 (f).
Gasteracantha hasselti Williams, 2017: 249, f. 1-7 (mf).
Gasteracantha hasselti Tan et al., 2019a: 45, f. 1F, 7A-E (f).
Macracantha hasselti Macharoenboon, Siriwut & Jeratthitikul, 2021: 45, f. 9C-D, 12D-I (f, T from Gasteracantha).
Gasteracantha hasselti Akhtar & Summer, 2021: 842, f. 2-5, 6a-b (f).