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Spinybacked Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
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Copyright © 2010
Joe Lapp
Spinybacked - dorsal -
Gasteracantha cancriformis
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Blunn Creek Preserve, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
September 19, 2010
Size: 2mm
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Contributed by
Joe Lapp
on 22 September, 2010 - 1:27am
Why does
this specimen look nothing like the others in this species? Is this what the males look like or is it a different form?
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Wendy Marchant
, 24 November, 2010 - 11:20pm
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Spiders are dimorphic
Great question. Spiders are dimorphic. Look at the size difference too. You'll find a drawing of this male in Levi's 1978 paper on the genus, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, p. 439.
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Joe Lapp
, 25 November, 2010 - 12:16am
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, 22 September, 2010 - 1:30am
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