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Thelacantha
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Thelacantha

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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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Asian Spinybacked Orbweaver

speciesThelacantha brevispina

Thelacantha cuspidata

speciesThelacantha cuspidata

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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 360785.