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Kite Spider

Isoxya sp.

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EOL: Isoxya, Isoxya

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Comments (5)
ChunXingWong
Oh, I read that somewhere in an spider guide of South Africa.
dungeonmasterShu
Chun: the book i have does not mention that genus at all, but wiki states "Afracantha camerunensis", the only member of the genus occurs in West, Central, East Africa and Venezuela.
dungeonmasterShu
Liam: quite right, colloquially, in South Africa we call members of both the "Gasteracantha" genus and "Isoxya" genus Kite Spiders. They are very similar and we do have a few members of the "Gasteracantha" here too.
Liam
What an interesting spider. Looks a lot like the American Spiny-backed Orbweaver.

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PublishedOctober 14, 2011

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