Spiny-backed Spider
Gasteracantha minax Thorell, 1859
Araneidae
(Alecto Facsimile Edition - Plate 41)

BAU52

$550.00

52. Spiny-backed Spider. Gasteracantha minax Thorell, 1859 [W&M – name corrected by P.
Hillyard in1999].
504 x 337 mm
No provenance for this spider can be traced. Bauer has drawn both normal and melanic forms and
dorsal and ventral views of each.
The spider is widespread throughout Australia.
W&M : 328, 344.