[Taxacom] Web-making insect, Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil

[Robin Leech]

Hi Alex,
These are spiders, not insects.
I am not sure of the genus, but Family Araneidae, subfamily 
Gasteracanthinae.
Robin

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Subject: [Taxacom] Web-making insect, Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil


> What beast is that?
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> http://bit.ly/b7qplk
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> Riparian forest, 100 m.
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> Thanks.
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