Giant amazonian amblypygids

[bistrobob85]

Hey guys, i'd like to know if anyone around is familiar to giant amazonian amblypygids?!?! I just can't seem to find any pertinent info about them... I'm thinking of Bate's Amblypygids, heterophrynus batesi, which might have been renamed otherwise... Its a giant amblypygid that consumes rodents and reptiles... Does anyone know what i'm talking about? I'd like to own some of them but they're so hard to find... Can someone help me out?!?!

phil.

[ShadowBlade]

Amblypygids are tailless whipscorpions and vinegaroons right?
If so, I just got back from Ecuador where I saw them in the jungle. A native guide and I went out at night, and one of the things we saw were tailless whipscorpions don't know what kind. (BTW, I don't know much about scientific names of Amblypigids).
A vinegaroon that eats rodents, umm... don't know.
But I would assume you could keep it just like other types of vinegaroons. (they'll still eat crickets).

[David_F]

Amblypygids are tailless whipscorpions and vinegaroons right?

Amblypygids are tailless-whipscorpions; Uropygids are whipscorpions/vinegaroons.

There used to be a colony of South American amblypygids kept at the bug zoo here in town. Phrynus spp. I think. They were being kept the same as Damon spp. Fairly humid, big water dish, lots of room to climb and hide, and fed crickets. They weren't a giant species...about the same size as Damon spp. but I imagine they would eat small lizards or rodents if given the chance. They are opportunistic predators after all. I doubt they specialize in rodents or lizards.

You've probably seen this since it appears to be one of the very few things available online for this species but here's a paper titled Duas Novas Sinonímias No Gênero Heterophrynus Pocock, 1894 (Amblypygi, Phrynidae) (http://acd.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/aracnopdfs/Giupponi,%202002-Duas%20novas%20sinon%EDmias%20em%20Heterophrynus.p df)

[bistrobob85]

Hm, actually i've never seen this paper... Hehe, and i dont read spanish either, well i could but with my pocket dictionnary... In fact, what made me discover the Bate's Amblypygid is an article in a reptile magazine on general amblypygids in which they were using data that they collected by raising groups of Bate's Tailless Whipscorpions, Heterophrynus Batesi. I'll try to give you guys the reference, because that's REALLY something to read...

phil.

[Gigas]

ive benn looking for a south american sp for ages, but are quite scarce in the uk and by south american i mean larger than the tanzanian ones..