Argiope appensa
(Hawaiian Garden Spider)

Picture ID 5251

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seen at the bamboo grass. the abdomen back is color yellow

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lumbocanensis
Submitted: Feb 11, 2018
Photographed: Feb 12, 2018
Spider: Argiope appensa (Hawaiian Garden Spider)
Location: Taligaman, Butuan City, Philippines
Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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ItsyBitsy

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February 11, 2018 2:27 pm

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This looks like Argiope appensa and I’m tentatively filing it as such but I still need to look through the literature to see if any of the other species in the genus native to the Philippines that are not yet easily searchable online are too similar to distinguish.