Christmas Spider (Gasteracantha taeniata)

About Christmas Spider (Gasteracantha taeniata)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Arachnids
• Order: Spiders
• Family: Orbweavers

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 with six prominent spines on their broad, hardened, shell-like abdomens.

Source: Wikipedia