Kite Spider

Oh, I read that somewhere in an spider guide of South Africa.

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.

Any Afracantha ?

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.

What an interesting spider. Looks a lot like the American Spiny-backed Orbweaver.