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Genus Nephila - male.
Nephila sp. and Nephila pilipes jalorensis. I am sceptic about this one being the male. This is the female, males are much, much smaller and have different colors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_pil...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G...
http://araneae.thu.edu.tw/ica2013/sites/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mating...
http://www.photosofanimals.com/spider-ph...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gInrPu_YeJE/Tu...
Here you clearly see the differences!
http://frank.itlab.us/photo_essays/wrapp...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N...
http://bunyipco.blogspot.ch/2010/05/gold...
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