For the identification of insects and other fauna and flora of South Africa.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Tropical Tent Web Spider (Cyrtophora citricola) family Araneidae

This female has made a huge web and in the middle are her egg sacks. She is about ½ and inch in length. The pictures are very difficult to get as they are all taken through the thick web which I could not coax her out of. The almost square abdomen and no-legs look made me think it looks like a beetle which I am sure it tries to imitate.







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