Thursday, July 26, 2007

Strange Looking Spidey

We were on our way to the Pisang waterfall again last Sunday when we chanced upon this strange looking spider. At first glance we thought it had a huge pair of pincers but on closeup, the two things sticking up were from the hind-section.

I've never seen this type of spider before and managed to get these two decent (I hope) closeups of it. Andrew from MNS mentioned this as a type of Spiney Spider.

1 Aug 2007: Spider identified! Thanks to Milo for pointing out the web-reference sites.
Specie of Orb Web Spider of family Araneidae
This is a Curved Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha arcuata) a.k.a. Horned Spider




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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yup another jewel spider species :)

12:05 AM
moggie said...

this has got to be the coolest spider ever! regret not having a go at it...was busy with something else while you were shooting this. will post it up soon. hint....'payback!'. : P

11:02 PM

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