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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Gasteracantha » Spinybacked Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
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Spinybacked - dorsal - Gasteracantha cancriformis - male
Copyright © 2010 Joe Lapp

Spinybacked - dorsal - Gasteracantha cancriformis - Male
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?
… Wendy Marchant, 24 November, 2010 - 11:20pm login or register to post comments

 
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.
… Joe Lapp, 25 November, 2010 - 12:16am login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request.
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