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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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