Khao Lak bugs

Part of our ever growing catalog of bugs, beasties and oddities from the area comes this very cool spider I found in the jungle.


It was uncomfortable being photographed so I couldn't get the really cool details on it's back.
It was a brighter Red than this, and those black lines are actually a series of dots in a linear fashion.


The "horns" are just accessories as the legs are just in the middle. Really weird....


I haven't seen it in nay books, but it must be called a carabao spider as it has the same outline as the carabao (waterbuffalo) skull predominant in Thai culture.

This is not an ad for carabao energy drink. If you want to drink "water buffalo" energy drink - go ahead. Not my problem