Spider

beautiful shot

it so frustration having to filter through the wrong id's, nick photo is about as close as your going to get following the taxonomy guide. but the links for the A.anasuja has more identifaction points than the A.pulchella links i have i would have to agree with you on A.anasuja unless there is a new sub-species XD

No problem, Nathan! Any help is appreciated! Moved to arthropods.

Thanks, I'm not familiar with Argiope outside of Australia.

I also checked Pulchella first, that was the name which came first in my mind after the discussion of the one from Atul. I ruled Pulchella out due to the color patterns. And I again noticed that many of these Indian Argiope are not correctly IDed, a real mixture of everything, which does the whole thing not easier. This is in my eyes a trustable Pulchella from Nick, note the different colors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/8313962079/ What do you think, Janine?

it is the lack of white which is unusual!

aha Bayucca's beat me to the punch i couldnt decide . .

I agree, Argiope sp. and should be Argiope anasuja. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7630318 http://indianaraneidae.blogspot.ch/ http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4fxlJwlBCy8/T_E7y8gdjMI/AAAAAAAAAR8/XUByHlsyOoM/s1600/argiope%2Banasuja.JPG http://www.flickr.com/photos/hareeshrmenon/2998217543/in/pool-502538@N25|hareeshrmenon

Great find!