
Comments & ID Thoughts
It looks like a male orb weaver spider but it's shape is a little weird.
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- Submitted: Apr 27, 2018
- Photographed: Apr 24, 2018
- Spider: Argiope trifasciata (Banded Garden Spider)
- Sex:Male,
- Maturity:Adult
- Location: Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Hi, yes,it does look to be a male orb weaver,alikely genus would be Nephila, one of the gold silk spiders. Not too familiar with Puerto Rico fauna, but seen very similar posted.
http://www.islandbiogeography.org/arachnids.html
https://spiderid.com/spider/araneidae/nephila/
You can compare with this submission from PR:
https://spiderid.com/picture/10550/