Subject: Nephila from Singapore
Geographic location of the bug: Singapore
Date: 03/03/2018
Time: 06:22 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: I read about the uncatalogued Nephila spider from Taiwan that was submitted by Dane Harris in 2011. Could you please help me identify a similar-looking spider from Singapore? Thanks
How you want your letter signed: TanHK
Dear TanHK,
We located this image on FlickR, also from Singapore, that identifies a similar looking Golden Silk Spider as Nephila piplipes, but we suspect that is a misspelling of Nephila pilipes as a nearly identical image is posted to Wikimedia Commons. Most images identified as Nephila pilipes, including on iNaturalist, look quite different.