Smokehound714
Arachnoking
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2013
- Messages
- 3,091
Call me crazy, but juveniles I find of this size generally look naked with just the patch of urticating hairs..
Found in orange county.
Haha, im gonna just stop attempting to use names. I'm just gonna call them "socal fuzzy-butts".. It's just criminal how under-studied our inverts are. It makes me so mad sometimes.Yeah, you might well be on to something... I imagine this is the sort of thing an actual arachnologist would have to weigh in on. I'm sure you understand better than most that there are supposedly a lot of different Aphonopelma species down here and telling them apart/understanding which are actual species pretty murky stuff.
I have seen a few like Behlei, which can mature at a small size. I do believe i remember josh_r posting a pic of a 3" mature male behlei.Looks like a normal Aphonoplema to me. The species here in Carlsbad look similar, and the adults don't get any bigger than 4".