Gasteracantha quadrispinosa
(Four-spined Jewel Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Gasteracantha quadrispinosa, commonly known as Four-spined Jewel Spider, belongs to the genus Gasteracantha, in the family Araneidae. Gasteracantha quadrispinosa spiders have been sighted 1 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Gasteracantha quadrispinosa includes 1 countries and 0 states in the United States. Gasteracantha quadrispinosa is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of January.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Gasteracantha
Species: Gasteracantha quadrispinosa

Other Common Names

Four-spined Jewel Spider

Author

O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879

Primary Colors

Sightings Overview

There have been 1 confirmed sightings of Gasteracantha quadrispinosa (Four-spined Jewel Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on January 30, 2019 by Spider ID member boezerooij. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 1 sightings because of certain Gasteracantha quadrispinosa sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 100% of the time, Gasteracantha quadrispinosa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 1)
Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
Environment: Gasteracantha quadrispinosa has been sighted 2 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Low foliage (1). Forest (1).