Coin Spider from Manglayang Mt.

Coin Spider from Manglayang Mt.

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Nephilidae
Genus:	Herennia
Species:	H. etruscilla

Herennia Etruscilla aka. coin spider is an endemic to java, and I get lucky to met this one. I get the exact id from karl from whatsthatbug.com, here is what karl say about the identification:

Hi Daniel and Mohamad:This beautiful spider is a Golden Orb Weaver in the family Nephilidae (formerly grouped under the Araneidae and Tetragnathidae). The genus is Herennia, and it has an Australasian distribution (India to the Solomon Islands). This is a very small genus with only 11 known species, usually referred to as Coin Spiders, most of which have been described only within the last decade. The island of Java apparently has two species; H. multipuncta is widespread throughout South and Southeast Asia and H. etruscilla is endemic to Java. There are several online images of H. multipuncta and they don’t match the one in this post. The definitive paper on the genus is “A Revision of Herennia (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephilinae), the Australasian ‘coin spiders’ “ by Kuntner (2005), in which both the detailed descriptions and photos of H. etruscilla provide a very good match to Mohamad’s spider. The unique webs are referred to as ladder webs and if you are interested in learning more you can check out another paper by Kuntner et al. (2009) [see: 9fcfd50cb81b07c8ae]. These spiders also exhibit some interesting sexual behavior. They demonstrate extreme sexual dimorphism, not unusual among spiders, but once engaged in copulation the males stay put, acting as a genital plug that prevents other males from fertilizing the female. In addition to Coin Spiders, common names also include Ornamental Step Ladder Spiders and Ornamental Tree Trunk Spiders. Thanks Mohamad, for a very interesting submission. Regards. Karlp.s. Daniel, my computer seems to have difficulty with hyperlinks to pdf files. Let me know if the links to the Kuntner papers don’t work and I can send you the full addresses. Karl

The magnificent thing... it is true from what karl say about the "ladder web", it is just like a ladder on a pine tree  from bottom to top. I don't know why the spider built these kind of webs but simply majestic!.
Here's some photo of those beautiful creatures.

H. etruscilla at night

H. etruscilla at daylight

Hersillia from Manglayang Mountain

Hersillia from Manglayang Mountain

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hersiliidae
Genus:	Hersilia

A strange looking spider, it has two tail on the end of its abdomen. After later I could identify this one, it's Hersillia Spider (a Two tailed bark-rock spider). The tail also scientifically known as spinnerets is used for spinning it's web.

In Manglayang Mountain I encountered a lot of them, they live on rocks, barks, and wood walls. One more interesting fact from my observation; when I found a female, there will be a male not far from there.

Female Hersillia

Male Hersillia

Female Hersillia Up Close

Molting Striped Lynx Spider from Manglayang Mountain

Molting Striped Lynx Spider from Manglayang Mountain

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

February, 22 2013.
It was a wonderful experience for me to see molting process of striped lynx spider.

It took more than an hour to complete the molting process. At first I thought that this guy is sleeping upside down, because it's keep ignoring me even if I try to get so close. So I carefully set up my camera and tripod near it, and started the observation.

hmm..., hanging upside down while spinning. I keep my camera on and after a while, wow...it started to stretched down and shed it's skin slowly started from the head part followed by the mandible, abdomen, legs and boom a shinny new spider suit.

So here it is guys a collation of a molting process of a striped lynx spider.

Molting striped lynx spider.

Lost My Jpeg Images

Lost My Jpeg Images

February 2013,

A bad thing happens, I lost almost all of my jpeg Image Collections from my computer that I took from 2010-2013 using my wonderful Canon Ixus 100is . 

I don't know when it was actually  happens, but when I notice it; all the images mostly gone from my folders. It was to late to try to recover the images because there was a lot of read and write activity doing in my computer drives.

Yes...I felt sad and anger at the same time, but you  know guys... it won't stop me to take the pictures again. Now started from 2013 I took my pictures using my Canon G12 raw, and backup those images more than one place.

:)

Black Weevil from Dago Pakar

Black Weevil from Dago Pakar

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

Unidentified weevil that I saw back than 2010, a lone individual.

Interesting antennae

Snout below the antennae

Beetles from Dago Pakar

Beetles from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota
Order:	Coleoptera

These are beetles from Dago Pakar way back 2010.

Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle 01

Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle 02

Tiger Beetle

Leaf Beetle

Stink Bug from Dago Pakar

Stink Bug from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:	Pentatomoidea

Why they're called stink bug?... yes, because they're sometime stinks, this bug release chemical liquid when they feel their life threatened. 

Beautiful yet stinks... if you don't believe me, just grab them if you find one.

Unidentified Microlepidoptera from Dago Pakar

Unidentified Microlepidoptera from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota
Order:	Lepidoptera

One beautiful small moth it is, I only got one decent photo of it. The wing color just awesome... it looks like a plume moth.

Thanks to Daniel, Karl, and Trevor from whatsthabug.com, from where I ask for a help to ID this one.

This is our conversation (article):

Me:
Hello Daniel,
I took this one on 2010, beautiful colored fly… but I wonder what is it.
Signature: Mohamad Idham Iskandar
Daniel:
Wow Mohamad,
We don’t even know where to begin with this one, except to eliminate what it is not.  We are confident it is not a fly, beetle or orthopteran.  Our best guess is that it is some type of moth and some of its features are similar to hymenopterans.  We wish you had additional photos.  Perhaps one of our readers will provide some information.  The antennae are unusual and there appear to be structures associated with the mouthparts that are pointing upwards as well.
Trevor:
Suggests False Plume Moth
Looking at those heavily spiked legs makes me think it may be in false plume moths. These moths are usually small (with wingspans around 1-2 cm/less than 1 inch) and brownish in color. They have large compound eyes, thread-like antennae, and prominent labial palps. The body is slender, and the legs bear large spines.
Daniel:
Thanks Trevor,
We had to do important things unrelated to What’s That Bug? today, and we are satisfied that we did more than expected.
Me:
Thanks alot Daniel and Trevor,
Ahhh… (Bang on the head) I forgot about lepidoptera (scale wing). Just like what Trevor said, yes…it is small, no more than 1,5 cm long.
Sadly after looking in my photo collection from that place 2010, I only have 1 decent looking photo of them.
I only met this guy once, and until now I haven’t met them again.
If I ever met them again, I’ll take more decent photos and inform you …
Karl: 
Provides some suggestions
Hi Daniel and Mohamad:
You are quite right Daniel. This is one of those frustratingly difficult Microlepidoptera, a group of tiny moths made up of numerous families and innumerable species. I think it is likely some sort of Concealer Moth in the family Oecophoridae. They are sometimes referred to as wasp mimics, which is in line with your suggested resemblance to a hymenopteran. However, it could also be Cosmet Moth in the family Cosmopterigidae (and there may be other candidate families as well). The prominent upturned facial appendages are its labial palps, a feature that is common to all sixteen or so families of the superfamily Gelechioidea , the Curved Horn Moths, to which the Oecophoridae and Cosmopterigidae both belong. Identifying it any further would require some serious expertise. Regards.  Karl
Daniel:
Thanks so much Karl.  We will classify it as Microlepidoptera.

and here's the photo...

Beautiful microlepidopteran

Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata) from Dago Pakar

Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata) from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Chrysomeloidea
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cassidinae
Tribe:	Cassidini
Genus:	Deloyala
Species:	Deloyala Guttata

A turtle on the leaves...look at it...

Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata)

Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata)

Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata)

Conocephalus melanus from Dago Pakar

Conocephalus melanus from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Genus:	Conocephalus
Species:	Conocephalus melanus

Red headed cricket, at first I thought this one is a true cricket... but they are not. They are in the same family with the katydids (Tettigoniidae).

Conocephalus melanus.

Conocephalus melanus late at night.

Scorpion Fly (Panorpa Communis) from Dago Pakar

Scorpion Fly (Panorpa Communis) from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mecoptera
Family:	Panorpidae
Genus:	Panorpa
Species:	Panorpa communis

A scorpion fly name taken from it's appearance, notice the stinger like on the end of it's abdomen actually the genitalia of a male scorpion fly.

They're harmless, don't ever think that they will bite you :).

Scorpion fly (male)

Scorpion fly (female)

Spiny Leaf Beetle (Dicladispa armigera) from Dago Pakar

Spiny Leaf Beetle (Dicladispa armigera) from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Chrysomeloidea
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cassidinae
Genus:	Dicladispa
Species:	armigera

Spiny leaf beetle on my friends arm

Spiny leaf beetle

Spiny leaf beetle mating

Lovely Grasshopper (Caelifera) from Dago Pakar

Lovely Grasshopper (Caelifera) from Dago Pakar

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera

This one is really beautiful, first time I saw this one but I don't know the sp. yet.

Lovely  grasshopper sp? (side)

Lovely  grasshopper sp? (top)

Beetles (Fireflies, Issid Planthopper, & Leaf Beetle) from Ranca Upas

Beetles (Fireflies, Issid Planthopper, & Leaf Beetle) from Ranca Upas

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Superfamily:	Elateroidea
Family:	Lampyridae

Fireflies (Lampyridae) the local here calls it kica-kica and Indonesian calls it kunang-kunang. 

a Fireflies (top-left)

a Fireflies (top)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Family:	Issidae

It's really hard to identify this one, but thanks to Daniel Marlos, Eric Eaton, and Karl from whatsthatbug.com for their effort to identify this guy. it's an Issidae from tribe Hemisphaeriini.

this is what karl from whatsthatbug.com answer:
Hi Daniel and Mohamad: I believe most or all of these are Issid Planthoppers (Issidae) in the Subfamily Hemisphaeriinae and Tribe Hemisphaeriini. This includes 13 genera and numerous species, all restricted to east and southeast Asia. Most are very poorly documented online and photos are difficult to find, but similar bug photos can be found under species such as Hemisphaerius, Gergithus and Gergithoides. Regards.  Karl

an Issid Planthoppers

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Chrysomeloidea
Family:	Chrysomelidae

A beautiful leaf beetle with a distinctive orange brushed like pattern on it's back.

a Leaf Beetle

Long Jawed Orb Weaver from Ranca Upas

Long Jawed Orb Weaver from Ranca Upas

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Araneoidea
Family:	Tetragnathidae

This one is a long jawed orb weaver, it's in the same family with the orchard orb weaver from situ cileunca I post earlier.

Notice the beautiful silver and black pattern of the abdomen.

a Long-jawed orb weaver rest (side)

a Long-jawed orb weaver rest (top)

Gasteracantha from Ranca Upas

Gasteracantha from Ranca Upas

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Gasteracantha

This one attractive spider is relatively small, even though they have intimidating looks; it's harmless.
When you look at from the top, the back of the abdomen resemble a mask.
Gasteracantha (spiny back orb weaver) is a genus I don't know yet the sp. of this one.

Gasteracantha ? (front-top)

Gasteracantha ? (top)

Lepidoptera from Ranca Upas

Lepidoptera from Ranca Upas

Here are some pictures of caterpillar, moth, and butterfly from Ranca Upas, Ciwidey.
I haven't got the time to identify them yet.
So here they are.

a Monarch butterfly just came out to see the world.

an Orange and black  colored Caterpillar.

a Caterpillar with spines all over.

a Moth with horizontal line on the mid.

Rest in triangular shape.

a White Concealer.

Moss pattern for concealment.