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Yellow Spiny-backed Orb-weaver ♀

Gasteracantha sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Yellow Spiny-backed Orb-weaver (Gasteracantha sp.; Araneidae); ♀. Similar-looking with the black-and-white Gasteracantha janopol (Alberto Barrion and James A. Litsinger 1995).

Habitat:

Makiling Botanic Gardens, a forest park of the Mt. Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems (adjacent or within the UPLB-College of Forestry and Natural Resources), University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna.

Species ID Suggestions

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Gasteracantha clavigera

Comments (1)

Thank you mortimor2014 for the ID. The photos of G. clavigera that I saw do not have the white on the tails. Is my spotting a variable form ( having white on the tails )? Thanks!

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