[1] It is found in Sri Lanka and India, and it has a pair of long, club-shaped spines on its abdomen.

Female G. remifera have hard, yellow, shell-like abdomens marked with 20 black sigilla and armed with three pairs of spines.

Tikader included "India: Tamil Nadu; Borively National Park, Maharashtra" in his species distribution notes for G.

[5] In India, G. dalyi also has long median spines, but these taper gradually to a point, lacking the club-like ends possessed by G.

[4] Macracantha arcuata has much longer, thinner, and more curved median spines without club-shaped ends or whitish hairs.