Taxon details
Gasteracantha curvispina (Guérin, 1837)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2023-05-24
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016013]
- Distribution: West, Central Africa
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Plectana curvispina Walckenaer, 1841: 154.
Gasteracantha walckenaeri Lucas, 1858: 49, 425, pl. 12, f. 7 (Df).
Gasteracantha vaccula Thorell, 1859: 301 (Df).
Gasteracantha retracta Butler, 1873a: 157, pl. 4, f. 12 (Df).
Anchacantha curvispina Butler, 1873a: 157 (type of this new subgenus of Gasteracantha).
Gasteracantha dahomensis Karsch, 1884b: 70 (Df).
Aranoethra cambridgei Simon, 1907d: 304 (m; misidentified per Emerit, 1982c: 465).
Gasteracantha curvispina Simon, 1907d: 300 (Dm).
Gasteracantha curvispina Dahl, 1914: 266, f. 13 (f).
Gasteracantha curvispina Benoit & Emerit, 1975: 328, f. 15-16 (m).
Gasteracantha curvispina Emerit, 1982c: 458, 465, pl. 1, f. A, D, F-G (m).
Gasteracantha curvispina Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 207, f. 579-580 (f).
Benoit, P. L. G. & Emerit, M. (1975). Mise à jour des connaissances concernant les Araneidae-Gasteracanthinae africains. Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 321-336. 
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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
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
Emerit, M. (1982c). Mise à jour de nos connaissances sur la systématique des Araneidae d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Nouveaux mâles de Gasteracanthinae et de Cyrtarachninae. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 4(A): 455-470. -- Show included taxa
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1837). Iconographie du régne animal de Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. Paris 3, 5-9. -- Show included taxa
Heinrichs, E. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2004). Rice-feeding insects and selected natural enemies in West Africa: biology, ecology, identification. International Rice Research Institute, Manila & Africa Rice Center, Abidjan, 242 pp. [spiders: pp. 192-222] -- Show included taxa
Karsch, F. (1884b). Über einige neue und minder bekannte Arthropoden des Bremer Museums. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 9: 65-71. -- Show included taxa
Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11206 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1859). Nya exotiska Epeirider. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 16: 299-304. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004 | n/a |