Urticating hair ID

Philth

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Nothing to do today, decided to look at urticating hairs under the scope. Sorry my pics suck as I dont have the right equipment to take pics.

Type 1


Type 2


Type 3


Type 4


Type 5


The awesome effects of urticating hairs. Love those New Worlds!


Later, Tom
 
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Nice shots Tom!Is the type one from a Brachypelma?
 
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My understanding is that aphonopelma exhibit type I only (and in fact this is one of the critera for classification into aphonopelma). Is that correct?
 
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Very interesting! Thank you for taking the time (getting the different hairs, setting up the camera and microscope and then sharing these pictures).
 
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I didnt know that there was more than one type of U-hair....nor did I know that it was possible to ID a T by its U-Hairs!
 
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Nice shots Tom!Is the type one from a Brachypelma?
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The Brachypelma's I've looked at seem to have Type 1 and 2. *my disclaimer, Im sure this research has ben done by real biologist if you really want to know. Im just a drunk with a microscope haha.

My understanding is that aphonopelma exhibit type I only (and in fact this is one of the critera for classification into aphonopelma). Is that correct?
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I dont know, thats intersting though, I need to scrape some Aphonopelma's

I didnt know that there was more than one type of U-hair....nor did I know that it was possible to ID a T by its U-Hairs
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I wouldnt say its possible to ID a tarantula buy its urticating hairs, but it is definitly possible to eliminate some sp. based on what hairs they carry.

After scraping a Brachypelma albiceps molt tonight I found this little guy walking across the slide. Really makes me wonder how many billions of these are cruising around my collection that go un-noticed everyday.



Later, Tom
 
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Are you using the exact same magnification for each picture?
And what is your magnification?

I think these are good pictures, thanks!
-=ICM=-
 
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My eye piece's 10X and it was set on 10/0.25 for all the pics.

Later, Tom
 
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