Which species is it?

Aug 6, 2004

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hooale

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Hi There,

During my holidays i found this tarantula.
Anyone knows which specie it is?

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Alex

 

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Its a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

 

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Hi Alex,
That's a red butt black front big fanged South American/African/East Lebanese toooooranchula (that was the common name).

I know, I know, don't thank me

Steve

 

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snake1dk said:

Its a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

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Sorry Snake but I'm not sure that it is C. cyanopubescens. The carapace seems too dark in color and I would expect to see at least a little more of a cyan hue.
Here's a pic of one of my gbb's for comparison...btw, this pic is not enhanced.

Atrax

p.s. I have no idea what the first pic is though. I'm not up on my n/w species at all. Just a wild guess....Pamphobeteus sp.? (proof I'm not in the know)

 

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Well, it would help a lot if we knew where the pic was taken

 

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Looks like a B. vagans

 

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Brachypelma vagans aka "Mexican Red Rump"

 

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i can't see any plumose setae on the trochanter on leg 1, so this is not a Brachypelma

 

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metallica said:

i can't see any plumose setae on the trochanter on leg 1, so this is not a Brachypelma

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Awww, does that mean I don't win?!

Well, it was a half (_*_) guess anyway!! It could be any number of species and ya can't i.d. a T from a photo anyway! I just wanted to qualify for the grand prize! Well, maybe a "GBB" or "Orange Bitey Thing"!

 

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At first i thought it was Brachypelma vagans, but then i saw the young. Juveniles of Sericopelma are very distinct from other species. Picture was taken in Panama. I collected two exuviums which are currently being examinated

 

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well for starters it's definitly no gbb

 

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Well, my geografi is werry poor, but the chromatopelma lives in venezuela, and the 2 i got, is in premolt, so the blue is'nt that blue now.
Was the carapace a litle green?

 

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What is it?

Gorgeous pic! It does look like B. vagans but the more I look at it the more I keep getting Acanthoscurria something. This is going to drive me nuts...
Let me know what you find out!!! :?

 

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I'm guessing freshly molted sub-adult Acanthoscurria chacoana. I have a couple of juvies, and their legs can look a little blue after a molt.

 

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What is it?

Yeah, that sounds right. Acanthoscurria (chacoana).
Good looking T!

 

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Greg Wolfe said:

Yeah, that sounds right. Acanthoscurria (chacoana).
Good looking T!

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and it walked all the way from Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina trough Peru and Colombia to Panama? no wonder it looks tired!

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G_Wright said:

well for starters it's definitly no gbb

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Great! only 849 to go...

 

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Hi

I would say it's some kind of a Aphonopelma Species

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Ruben Olsen
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metallica said:

and it walked all the way from Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina trough Peru and Colombia to Panama? no wonder it looks tired!

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*ROFL*

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Martin

 

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I think I might have solved this spider's identity crisis. There is a specie called Crassicrus lamanai in Central America, sometimes called a "Cinnamon tarantula" or "Antelope tarantula", though I have NO idea how that last common name came about. It is a skittish burrowing species, and is very sexually dimorphic, with adult females being a cinnamon brown color and males basically being black with red abdomens. I recently saw a program on the National Geographic Channel which showed a naturalist capturing several of this species in Belize, even allowing himself to be bitten by an angry female he's dug out of her burrow just to demonstrate how mild their venom is, and trying to put together a mature male and female in the hopes that they would breed. The male looked just like the spider in the pic at the beginning of this thread, and there is a pic on Rick West's site that matches it also. Most of the info I can find on it suggest it is mainly found in Belize, but since animals don't recognize political/national boundries, it isn't outside the realm of possibility that this specie, or a closely-related one, could also be found in Panama.

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