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Type deposit provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Gasteracantha mascula Strand, 1916, 1 m (3760-118)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Gasteracantha picea C. L. Koch, 1845, (25989)
Holotype: Zoological Museum of the Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale) (ZMUH), Germany (search of type material, 24.05.2019); f, type material of Gasteracantha columbiae Giebel, 1863 probably lost
Holotype: ; Aranea hexacantha Fabricius, 1787 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Gasteracantha kochi joinvillensis Strand, 1916, 2 f (3753-118)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Gasteracantha mammosa C. L. Koch, 1845, (1256)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Gasteracantha rubiginosa C. L. Koch, 1844, (1257)
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Gasteracantha comstocki Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00196, 00200); 2 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)

Taxonomic references

Aranea cancriformis Linnaeus, 1758: 624 (Df).
Aranea tetracantha Linnaeus, 1767: 1037 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057031].
Aranea conchata Slabber, 1769: 3 (D).
Aranea tetracantha Pallas, 1772: 49, pl. 3, f. 16-17 (f).
Aranea hexacantha Fabricius, 1787: 344 (Df).
Epeira lata Walckenaer, 1805: 66.
Epeira servillei Guérin, 1825: 263 (Df).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Sundevall, 1833b: 14.
Acrosoma hexacantha Hahn, 1834: 17, f. 106 (f, misidentified).
Gasteracantha cancriformis C. L. Koch, 1837a: 21, f. 263 (f).
Gasteracantha hexacantha C. L. Koch, 1837a: 31, f. 268 (f, misidentified).
Gasteracantha velitaris C. L. Koch, 1837a: 33, f. 269 (Df).
Plectana cancriformis Walckenaer, 1841: 151.
Plectana velitaris Walckenaer, 1841: 152.
Plectana hexacantha Walckenaer, 1841: 152.
Plectana elipsoides Walckenaer, 1841: 155 (Df).
Plectana quinqueserrata Walckenaer, 1841: 157 (Df).
Plectana sexserrata Walckenaer, 1841: 157 (Df).
Plectana triserrata Walckenaer, 1841: 158 (Df).
Plectana servillei Walckenaer, 1841: 159.
Plectana lata Walckenaer, 1841: 165 (Df).
Plectana atlantica Walckenaer, 1841: 167 (Df).
Gasteracantha rubiginosa C. L. Koch, 1844: 55, f. 878 (Df).
Gasteracantha picea C. L. Koch, 1844: 61, f. 882 (Df).
Gasteracantha mammosa C. L. Koch, 1844: 57, f. 879 (Df).
Gasteracantha quadridens C. L. Koch, 1844: 59, f. 880 (Df).
Gasteracantha pallida C. L. Koch, 1844: 60, f. 881 (Df).
Epeira cancer Hentz, 1850: 23, pl. 3, f. 13 (Df).
Gasteracantha moesta Thorell, 1859: 301 (Dj).
Gasteracantha insulana Thorell, 1859: 302 (Df).
Gasteracantha hilaris Thorell, 1859: 302 (Df).
Gasteracantha columbiae Giebel, 1863: 312 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055201].
Gasteracantha kochii Butler, 1873a: 169 (Df).
Dicantha lata Butler, 1873a: 175.
Micrathena triserrata Butler, 1873a: 429.
Gasteracantha oldendorffii Holmberg, 1876: 21 (Df).
Gasteracantha insulana Butler, 1877: 76, pl. 13, f. 1 (f).
Gasteracantha raimondii Taczanowski, 1879: 106, pl. 1, f. 25-26 (Df).
Gasteracantha raimondii unicolor Taczanowski, 1879: 107 (Df).
Gasteracantha proboscidea Taczanowski, 1879: 108, pl. 1, f. 27 (Df).
Gasteracantha canestrinii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879c: 282, pl. 26, f. 2 (Dj).
Gasteracantha callida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879c: 284, pl. 26, f. 7 (Df).
Gasteracantha rufospinosa Marx, 1886: 25, f. a-f (Df).
Gasteracantha hexacantha Keyserling, 1892: 1, pl. 1, f. 1 (f, misidentified).
Gasteracantha elliptica Gétaz, 1893: 105 (Df).
Gasteracantha maura McCook, 1894: 210, pl. 13, f. 12 (Df).
Gasteracantha cancriformis McCook, 1894: 211, pl. 14, f. 9 (f).
Gasteracantha pallida McCook, 1894: 209, pl. 14, f. 8 (f).
Gasteracantha preciosa McCook, 1894: 211, pl. 14, f. 7 (Df).
Gasteracantha cancriformis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901b: 329, pl. 7, f. 11 (f).
Gasteracantha canestrinii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901b: 330, pl. 7, f. 10 (Df).
Gasteracantha kochii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901b: 331, pl. 7, f. 10 (f).
Gasteracantha cancriformis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 525, pl. 51, f. 14 (f).
Gasteracantha kochii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 525, pl. 51, f. 15 (f).
Gasteracantha biolleyi Banks, 1905b: 20, f. 3 (Df).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Dahl, 1914: 263 (S of Gasteracantha columbiae).
Gasteracantha servillei Dahl, 1914: 264.
Gasteracantha tetracantha Dahl, 1914: 265.
Gasteracantha kochi joinvillensis Strand, 1916b: 118 (Df).
Gasteracantha mascula Strand, 1916b: 119 (Dm).
Gasteracantha comstocki Mello-Leitão, 1917a: 93 (Df).
Vibradellus carolinus Chamberlin, 1925d: 214 (Dm).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 249, f. 103 (mf).
Gasteracantha tetracantha Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 253, f. 104-107 (f, Dm).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Archer, 1941b: 23, pl. IV, f. 3, 5 (mf).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Benoit, 1964a: 49 (S).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Levi, 1978a: 437, f. 69-84 (mf, S).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Levi, 1978b: 11, f. 15-17 (m).
Gasteracantha tetracantha Wunderlich, 1986: 217, f. 218 (m).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Levi, 1996b: 140, f. 292-312 (mf, S of Gasteracantha tetracantha).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Levi, 2002: 553, f. 251-252 (m).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 846, f. 133E, 136A (f).
Gasteracantha cancriformis Baert et al., 2023: 6, f. 11A-C, 12A-C (mf).

References

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Archer, A. F. (1941b). Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama. Museum Paper, Geological Survey of Alabama 18: 1-47. -- Show included taxa

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1905b). Arachnids from Cocos Island. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 7: 20-23. -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1964a). Nouvelle contribution à la connaissance des Araneidae-Gasteracanthinae d'Afrique et de Madagascar (Araneae). Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 69: 41-52. -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1873a). A monographic list of the species of Gasteracantha or crab-spiders, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873: 153-180. -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1877). Myriopoda and Arachnida. In: Günther, A. (ed.). Account of the zoological collection made during the visit of H. M. S. "Peterel" to the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 45(1): 75-77, Pl. XIII. -- Show included taxa

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Dahl, F. (1914). Die Gasteracanthen des Berliner Zoologischen Museums und deren geographische Verbreitung. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 7: 235-301. -- Show included taxa

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Gétaz, A. (1893). Fauna arachnologica de Costa Rica. Anales del Instituto Fisico-Geografico y del Museo Nacional de Costa-Rica 4: 103-106. -- Show included taxa

Giebel, C. G. (1863). Drei und zwanzig neue und einige bekannte Spinnen der Hallischen Sammlung. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 21: 306-328. -- Show included taxa

Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1825). Epeira. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Entomologie 10: 263; 331; 416; 419; 546; 593; 622; 625; 750; 758; 763; 777. -- Show included taxa

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Taxon details

Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Gasteracantha

Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)