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Juvenile Selenobrachys philippinus
Genus Selenobrachys
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Does this species normally have a small abdomen? (I know some certainly are "fatter"than others.. or is it fresh off a molt? size? nice pic!
Christopher
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Not sure if they typically have a small abdomen. This one was just really hungry and may be fresh from a molt. After a cricket a day for almost a week it's starting to put on some wieght. Its abdomen does appear to be more elongated than other species though. I think it's about 2" or so right now but I can't judge size and it's too fast to put next to a ruler.
Thanks for looking, guys.
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that's a beautiful asian T. not an expert but, i think males have smaller abdomens.
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cool t david. i'm not too familiar with these at all. kind of makes me think of a trap door spider. (the color of the carapace)
rex...you can make a males abdomen very fat if he is a big eater.
it looks like it had fairly recent molt to me, but i could be wrong.
rex...you can make a males abdomen very fat if he is a big eater.
it looks like it had fairly recent molt to me, but i could be wrong.
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i've been wanting to get S. philippinus. hope to get some soon.
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I hope this new sp. is established in hobby...
It is extremely rare, right?
do you have a couple?? or someone?
It is extremely rare, right?
do you have a couple?? or someone?
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I hope they get established as well. I'm not sure how rare they are...just that there's not a lot of info on them online. I'm supposed to have two but a bit of a problem came up so I'm waiting for the second to be reshipped.
Brian,
I never really thought about them looking like a trapdoor spider. I think you're right; the carapace does kinda remind me of one, too. This one though, unlike a trapdoor spider, has crazy, spindly legs. Kinda creepy.
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New crappy pic. Silly thing wouldn't sit still long enough to get anything good. Forget running. If I want to excercise I'll just take this spider out and try to get pics of it.
It's molted once but I wasn't able to get the exuvium so I still don't know if it's male or female.
It's molted once but I wasn't able to get the exuvium so I still don't know if it's male or female.
Hi,
Your specimen seems to measure more than 3 cm of BL and with this size it is easily possible to differentiate the males and the females.
Unfortunately I do not have any pictures to prove what I says but the females have a very marked epigastric furrow contrary to the males.
Some pictures of my female :
A "dirty" picture of the matting :
4 months after :
At the moment the larvae are at the second stage (that you call 3rd instar if I remember)
Greetings,
Emmanuel.
Hello,
My female measures 6 cm of BL and approximately 15 cm of legspan, it is a young adult. (sorry for the metric system, I could not convert into inches)
I know that some females measure up to 7 cm of BL, it is the biggest species of Theraphosidae which lives in Philippines.
Emmanuel.
Hehe very nice, Don't worry , we have cm here in Slovenia
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S. philippinus
S. philippinus
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Here's one of my many Selenobrachys philippinus "Philipino Orange" that I have. I can't wait till they get bigger!
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At the moment the larvae are at the second stage (that you call 3rd instar if I remember)
Greetings,
Emmanuel.
Wow Congratulations on the slings... even if I'm from the Philippines.. it's still prretty hard to acquire that kind of species here.. and I've never heard a successful captive breeding of that species from hobbyists here.. again Cogratulations!!