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Nephilid Orb Weaver
Nephilengys malabarensis
5.99424, 116.554
Field Notes
Description:
A big orb web spider closely related to the famous Nephila spiders.
Species name - Nephilengys malabarensis.
This female spider is nocturnal.
About 1.5 cm / 15mm in length.
Black body with cream-brown stripes at legs and lined patterns on abdomens.
Bright orange patterns under it's abdomen - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/10881088
Quite common around Rose Cabin.
Habitat:
This one lives behind a wall mirror outside a building of Rose Cabin (inn), Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
Notes:
This one and several other females of the same species that are living behind the same mirror only crawl out at night.
I captured this one before it could retreat back into it's hideout.
These photos are taken the next morning after I have released it back onto the wall, the night before was to dark for me to take good pictures of it.
>>>Map accuracy : 10m diameter.
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