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Argiope sp.
The genus Argiope includes rather large and spectacular spiders that have often a strikingly coloured abdomen. These are well distributed throughout the world, and most countries in temperate or warmer climates have one or more species, which look similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_(sp...)
Spotted on its web strung between vegetation along a transect in secondary coastal lowland mixed freshwater swamp forest/sago swamp forest.
It looks like perhaps a grasshopper has been ensnared in the web.
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