Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864

Macharoenboon, Kongkit, Siriwut, Warut & Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, 2021, A review of the taxonomy of spiny-backed orb-weaving spiders of the subfamily Gasteracanthinae (Araneae, Araneidae) in Thailand, ZooKeys 1032, pp. 17-62 : 17

Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864

Gasteracantha frontata Blackwall, 1864: 40. Type locality: East Indies.

Gasteracantha frontata Full list of synonyms and usage of the name available in World Spider Catalog (2020).

Remarks.

The abdomen of G. frontata is wider than long. Color of the abdomen is brownish yellow. Median spines of G. frontata are conical, and not elongated compared to other Gasteracantha species with a broad abdomen ( Blackwall 1864; Pickard-Cambridge 1879). Gasteracantha frontata were reported from Chanthaburi and Rayong provinces ( Simon 1886). However, we failed to obtain specimens from either area in this study.

Distribution.

East Indies, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Indonesia ( Simon 1886; World Spider Catalog 2020).