Brown-lobed Spider from Situ Cileunca

Brown-lobed Spider (Cyclosa insulana)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Cyclosa
Species:	Cyclosa insulana

Small orb weaver the Brown-lobed Spider (Cyclosa insulana). At first I thought the web has been deserted and when I look closely there he/she is sitting at the center like a debris or something. The color and shape of the abdomen is really something.

Brown-lobed Spider (Cyclosa insulana)

Harvestmen from Situ Cileunca

Harvestmen (Opiliones)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Dromopoda
Order:	Opiliones

8 Long leg and a tiny oval body. Maybe you think this is a spider but it is not.
Harvestmen or Opiliones is a different order from spider or araneae, although they have same class and that is arachnid. Interesting creature, like an egg with long legs.

Harvestmen with mostly orange body.

Harvestmen with mostly  black and white body.

Lepidoptera from Situ Cileunca

Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

These are caterpillar, moth, and butterfly that I managed to take picture around Situ Cileunca.

a Little bit tattered on the left, but good to go.

a Beautiful hairy cat.

Try to conceal him self, but failed big time :).

a Small moth.

Large Crane Flies from Situ Cileunca

Large Crane Flies (Tipulidae)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tipulidae
Genus:	Nephrotoma
Species:	Nephrotoma appendiculata

Interesting looking fly from the family of Large Crane Flies (Tipulidae), long stretched leg like a crane.
This one especially have distinctive orange colored head, thorax, & abdomen.
I've come across some of this flies from another place, maybe next time I'll post the image.

Large crane flies (top)

Large crane flies (side)

Orchard Orb Weaver from Situ Cileunca

Orchard Orb Weaver (Leucauge venusta)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Leucauge
Species:	Leucauge venusta

This one is orchard spider an orb weaver from long jawed orb weaver spider family.

Look at the beautiful colored abdomen, amazing isn't it... :)

Orchard Orbweaver (front)

Orchard Orbweaver (back)

Orchard Orbweaver (side)

Assassin's Bug from Situ Cileunca

Assassin Bug - Reduviidae

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Harpactorinae
Tribe:	Harpactorini
Genus:	Zelus
Species:	Zelus longipes

Maybe you wondered why this one called an assassin bug...
This bug called assassin bug because most of them feed on small insects by stabbing it's beak on it's prey and there's one species eats blood (Triatominae).
If carelessly handled it could inflict serious bite... so be careful if you found this one.

This one called Milkweed Assassin Bug (Zelus longipes)

Milkweed assassin bug on a flower

Hm... is that food?

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Harpactorinae
Tribe:	Harpactorini
Genus:	?
Species:	?

Another assassin bug... I haven't got positive ID on this one.

Another assassin bug

Flea Beetle from Situ Cileunca

Flea Beetle - Parchicola tibialis

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Parchicola
Species:	Parchicola tibialis

This one looked at me before he jumps away...

Parchicola tibialis on top of a tree.

Another flea beetle sitting on leaf...

Another flea beetle on the edge of a leaf.

Cyrtarachne Inaequalis from Situ Cileunca

Cyrtarachne Inaequalis (Bird drop/snail mimicking spider)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Araneoidea
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Cyrtarachne
Species:	Cyrtarachne inaequalis

Cyrtarachne is a spider that camouflage them self by mimicking bird drop or a snail.
This one is a small sized spider the Cyrtarachne Inaequalis.
At the first glance, I didn't think that this one is a spider; it looks like a snail or something, but when I look closer... I realized this one is a spider and when I touch it's soft and shiny abdomen it started to move.  Interesting experience for me, my first encounter with Cyrtarachne...

Cyrtarachne Inaequalis (front)

Cyrtarachne Inaequalis (top)

Cyrtarachne Inaequalis (side)

Striped Lynx Spider from Situ Cileunca

Striped Lynx Spider (Oxyopes Salticus)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Oxyopidae
Genus:	Oxyopes
Species:	Oxyopes salticus

This one is quite famous spider the lynx spider the striped lynx (Oxyopes salticus). It has spines on it's leg, distinctive eye arrangement, and oval body shaped.
I manage to take female and male photos from one site, and here they are.

Female (side)

Female (top)

Male (front)

Male (side)

Unidentified Orb Weaver from Situ Cileunca

Unidentified Orb Weaver

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Araneoidea
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	?
Species:	?

This guy is an orb weaver by looking to it's eye arrangement, but I don't know the exact ID of this.
The most appealing look from this little guy is the strawberry like abdomen.

Unidentified Orb Weaver (top)

Unidentified Orb Weaver (front)

Unidentified Orb Weaver (side)

Unidentified Orb Weaver (active)

Argiope from Situ Cileunca

The Beautiful Spider Argiope

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Argiope
Species:	Argiope appensa

This spider is Argiope Appensa.
The one I encountered  is really huge, it could cover your whole face. Scary it is, but beautiful...

Argiope Appensa (female)

Not far from an Orchard Spider another argiope found but the color is white with a little brownish, maybe it's a juvenile. The interesting one is he/she make an orb with a "stabilimentum" (zigzag pattern) in the center of the web...

Another Argiope

Weevil or Snout Beetle from Situ Cileunca

Weevil or Snout Beetle from Situ Cileunca

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea

This guy is really cute, the dot pattern on it's back and the mouth shape is really interesting.

White with dotted on the back (front)

White with dotted on the back (side)

Another weevils mating on top of the flower.