Key Identification Features
- Its abdomen is distinctively elongated, tapering to a long “tail” that extends beyond the ventrally positioned spinnerets, though immature individuals and males may not show this trait clearly.
- probata, the only other Argiope species with a similarly shaped abdomen, by examining morphological features of the epigyne.
- Nephilengys papuana was previously treated as the subspecies Nephilengys malabarensis papuana within Nephilengys malabarensis, but it is currently recognized as a distinct species.
- Two small but distinct tubercles are present at the rear end of the abdomen.
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