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New Guinea Tent Spider I shot this Cyrtophora moluccensis in Aiyura, Papua New Guinea. My Papua New Guinean friend commented that it looks like a mask on its bum. They are beautiful but they string their giant webs high in the air with many other spiders. Kinda creepy when you get underneath them. <br /> Cyrtophora moluccensis,Dome Tent Spider Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

New Guinea Tent Spider

I shot this Cyrtophora moluccensis in Aiyura, Papua New Guinea. My Papua New Guinean friend commented that it looks like a mask on its bum. They are beautiful but they string their giant webs high in the air with many other spiders. Kinda creepy when you get underneath them.

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    Christine Young
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    Wow! That's a beautiful spider! Posted 6 years ago
  2. View Ruth Spigelman's profile
    Ruth Spigelman
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    Most beautiful arachnids for sure. A wonderful sighting! Posted 6 years ago
  3. View Ruth Spigelman's profile
    Ruth Spigelman
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    And curious re them being orb weavers but the webs being unlike the conventional. Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago

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The Dome Tent Spider

Common in open woodland. The colourful abdominal markings of this large spider make it reasonably easy to recognize. Although it technically belongs to the orb-web spiders (family Araneidae), Cyrtophora moluccensis does not build an orb web. Its tent-like, highly complex non-sticky web is sometimes considered a precursor of the simplified orb-web.

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Uploaded Aug 21, 2019. Captured Aug 19, 2019 09:53.
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