Phrynarachne ceylonica
[Bird-Dung Spider]
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Classification: | Phylum: Arthropoda | Class: Arachnida | Order: Araneae | Family: Thomisidae | Genus: Phrynarachne |

After spotting this spider for the first time, I returned to the same spot about a month later and found that it had made itself a nest on the same leaf of the Straits Rhododendron (Melastoma malabathricum) that it was residing on the last time.
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The second time that I spotted the spider was in December 2023, almost 10 years later, at the same park that I spotted the first one. This time, it was found on the leaf of a Bandicoot Berry (Leea indica) plant. As of December 2023, there were 31 observations reported in Singapore in the iNaturalist website.
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