Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Gasteracantha
Other Common Names
Spiny Orb-weavers
Author
Carl Jakob Sundevall, 1833
Sightings Overview
There have been 72 confirmed sightings of Gasteracantha (Spiny Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on November 10, 2023 by Spider ID member scarey. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 72 sightings because of certain Gasteracantha sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 82% of the time, Gasteracantha spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 72)
- Sex: 8 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Gasteracantha has been sighted 77 times outdoors, and 5 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (22). Low foliage (27). High foliage (19). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (1). Forest (7).
Location and Range
Gasteracantha (Spiny Orb-weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Honduras, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, South Africa, United States, Zambia.
Gasteracantha has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
Seasonality
Gasteracantha has been primarily sighted during the month of March.
- January: 9
- February: 8
- March: 12
- April: 5
- May: 11
- June: 2
- July: 4
- August: 3
- September: 3
- October: 6
- November: 5
- December: 4