Decorative Leucauge ♀

Description:

Decorative Silver Orb Spider or Decorative Leucauge (Leucauge decorata Blackwall 1864; Tetragnathidae). A medium to large, slender orb weaver with a silver back or upper surface of the abdomen and a striped green underneath of the abdomen, a long separation between the spinerets and the rear end of the abdomen, found in low vegetation, often grasses, from about 30cm to 2m above the ground in a slanted web inclined at about 15-30 degrees off the horizontal. The female stays in the web during the day. The much smaller male may be found on the outskirts of the web at breeding time. (www.arachne.org.au)

Habitat:

Shaded part of a garden amongst low shrubs. The garden, located in Lucban-Tayabas, Quezon Province, is beside some fish ponds and rice paddies near the foot of Mt. Banahaw de Lucban.

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