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Nephilengys borbonica

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

The color of the abdomen ranges from dark grey to brown or purple. While the sternum is not red in most specimens, it is so in some females from Madagascar, and all studied females from the Comoro Islands. Female abdomen color Madagascar ranges from white though creamy brown to purple.

Habitat:

rainforest

Notes:

Spotted this in a tree the parking lot of the visitors centre in Andasibe Mantidia National Park.

Species ID Suggestions

Nephilengys borbonica

Nephilengys borbonica

Comments (1)

Thanks for the ID on this Carolina. I've been going through some of my first spottings and I saw that I never updated this.
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PublishedApril 11, 2011

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