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Gasteracantha falciformis
Species was about 1cm long and about 3cm wide. The males are generally much smaller than the females and commonly lack the showy coloring of their fairer sex. They often spin their own smaller orb web near an outlying portion of the female's.
A crop field near the University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania.
I found three of this kind of spiders, but this was the only one of which the color combination was so beautiful.
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When you think that all possibilities have been already explored... Fantastic finding!
Definitely Gasteracantha sp. and might be Gasteracantha falciformis, sometimes also called G. falcicornis.
http://www.reptile-food.ch/en/casareptil...
Wild spider! Fabulous photo!
Nino, If you ever make it further north into east Africa, please consider adding your beautiful spottings to the mission East African Biodiversity. You will need to look at the map to see if the area you found them is covered as I couldn't cover all of East Africa.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/4028...
Spotted on Jul 4, 2014
Submitted on Oct 4, 2014
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