Each 8mm long
Red-Brown head and thorax, black-gray flashy abdomen (hairy) with black 'stripes'.
I found a larger colony of them in a dead branch of a tree only identified as having come from the Philippines..
One found in an open high-grass field with trees dotted around (but next to the previously described tree), the other in a tunneled out, and dead, twig (of the same tree). I am not sure if that particular tree is relevant, but it is wickedly spiky with strong spikes even on the young and green growths. The leaves are quite snall. Perhaps less than an inch in diameter, and almost circular but is oval-shaped.
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Edited by Shaye, July 24 2017 - 10:18 PM.
