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 84 confirmed sightings of Gasteracantha (Spiny Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on January 4, 2025 by Spider ID member bemidjimac. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 84 sightings because of certain Gasteracantha sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 83% of the time, Gasteracantha spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 84)
- Sex: 8 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Gasteracantha has been sighted 91 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (27). On flower (1). Low foliage (29). High foliage (25). 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, Costa Rica, 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, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
Seasonality
Gasteracantha has been primarily sighted during the month of January.
- January: 13
- February: 8
- March: 12
- April: 6
- May: 12
- June: 2
- July: 6
- August: 4
- September: 4
- October: 6
- November: 6
- December: 5