Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Nephila vitiana

Nephila vitiana

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

8 Comments

folicallychalled
folicallychalled 10 years ago

Excellent images, particularly as you captured top and bottom views.

There are two very similar species of nephila; vitiana and antipodiana. Both species are known for color polymorphism and exist in several forms. I found two documents that discuss this, one for each species.

The color morphs look the same for both species and I suspect that both species could be the same, but that is just my opinion. Here are the documents:

Vitiana http://www.scribd.com/doc/118270252/JOST...

antipodiana http://academia.edu/346160/Abdominal_col...

In the first document; page two, paragraph two, is a discussion of the differences between the two species. Based on this and what I have in my image folders, I believe that this spotting is nephila antipodiana. Vitiana has yellow knee joints and a red carapace on the underside.

Have a look at the documents and see what you think :)

Dave

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 11 years ago

Very beautiful Nephila...

PongWira
PongWira 11 years ago

Wow, elegant Nephila.

folicallychalled
folicallychalled 11 years ago

I think ChunXingWong is right.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/118270252/JOST...

Dave

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 11 years ago

This could be a Nephila vitiana but I am not sure.

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 11 years ago

Wonderful spotting, sianakdesa. I agree with kyrontf about it possibly being a Nephila species, and I have moved the spotting to Arthropods. :-)

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Bello color:: agradable a la vista::genial

kyrontf
kyrontf 11 years ago

Gorgeous photos! Looks like something in the genus Nephila.

sianakdesa
Spotted by
sianakdesa

Aceh, Indonesia

Spotted on Dec 29, 2012
Submitted on Jan 4, 2013

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Nephila Spider (Female) Nephila Spider Nephila clavipes 斑络新妇

Nearby Spottings

Spotting The Tawny Coster Batik Golden Web Spider Lesser Grass Blue
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team