''Gasteracantha gambeyi'' is a species of spiny
orb-weaver spider in the genus ''
Gasteracantha''. It was described from
New Caledonia
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Description
''Gasteracantha gambeyi'' is known from a single 19th century description of a female specimen. French naturalist
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
described a specimen with an abdomen measuring 15.5 millimeters wide by 8.5 millimeters long, with three pairs of short (2 millimeters), black, and widely spaced spines around the abdomen. These spines were covered with small tubercles. Simon described the upper surface of the abdomen as a bright, clear red-brown color with black
sigilla and transverse black bands, the anterior band broken in the middle.
In 1914,
Friedrich Dahl
Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (June 24, 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Holstein – June 29, 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist.
The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the universities of Leipzi ...
synonymized ''G. gambeyi'' with ''
Gasteracantha rubrospinis'', musing, however, that ''G. gambeyi'' might be a species between ''G. rubrospinis'' and ''
Gasteracantha fasciata
''Gasteracantha'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first named by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. Species of the genus are known as spiny-backed orb-weavers, spiny orb-weavers, or spiny spiders. The females of most species are brightly colored w ...
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The World Spider Catalog does not follow Dahl in this case and retains ''G. gambeyi'' as a distinct species in the catalog.
See also
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List of Araneidae species
References
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Spiders described in 1877
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