I've started trying to compile a guide to Gasteracantha species: Gasteracantha ID Guide (in progress).
Misidentified photos are rampant online (including here on iNaturalist), and information about many species is lacking entirely.
Please leave comments in the guide if you have something to add, and let me know if you'd like to become an editor.
So far (Jan. 13, 2019), I've only created pages for about 45 percent of the species listed in the World Spider Catalog...a work in progress.
Here's the link to view and comment: Gasteracantha ID Guide (in progress).
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Wonderful! These are such amazing spiders -- the guide is great so far! :)
Thanks so much! Let me know if you want to plug in. I have reached out to a couple of experts who are not on iNat too.
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