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Asian Spinybacked Orbweaver
Thelacantha brevispina
Thelacantha is a spider genus of the Araneidae family with only one described species, Thelacantha brevispina. The species is closely related to Gasteracantha, and was synonymized with it in 1859, but revalidated in 1974.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 360593.