Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Afracantha Dahl, 1914 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01430 ]
N.B.: described as a subgenus of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833; elevated to genus by Emerit, 1974: 29.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-12-07
Described in
Dahl, 1914: 251 (type Afracantha batesi Dahl, 1914; gender feminine; syn. of Afracantha camerunensis (Thorell, 1899))
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Species counts
Counts Status
1accepted
1synonym
Reference

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

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