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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Gasteracantha  Sundevall, 1833   1 species

Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Central America, Caribbean, South America. Introduced to Hawaii
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Distribution List
Netherlands   (IJland & van Diemen, 2023) |||
References

Álvarez-Padilla F, Hormiga G (2011) Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162: 713-879 pdf

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

IJland S, Diemen P van (2023) Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneae, Araneidae) geimporteerd in Nederland [Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneae, Araneidae) imported into the Netherlands]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 40: 21-22 pdf

Levi H W (1996) The American orb weavers Hypognatha, Encyosaccus, Xylethrus, Gasteracantha, and Enacrosoma (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 89-157 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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