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Gasteracantha sp.
Yellow Spiny-backed Orb-weaver (Gasteracantha sp.; Araneidae); ♀. Similar-looking with the black-and-white Gasteracantha janopol (Alberto Barrion and James A. Litsinger 1995).
Makiling Botanic Gardens, a forest park of the Mt. Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems (adjacent or within the UPLB-College of Forestry and Natural Resources), University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna.
Related spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/192...
Thank you mortimor2014 for the ID. The photos of G. clavigera that I saw do not have the white on the tails. Is my spotting a variable form ( having white on the tails )? Thanks!
Spotted on Nov 15, 2015
Submitted on Nov 28, 2015
