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personally i would say that you have a haplopelma lividum male, nort 100% though
taorchard1987 said:personally i would say that you have a haplopelma lividum male, nort 100% though
ah! i didnt notice i made a dumb mistake. it was a typo.Lopez said:Is that a hybrid?! :?
LOL ;-)Martin H. said:Hi,
when someone would post a photo of a dog an asks for an ID and another one would reply with "it looks like a cat for me" – what would you think about the latter and his reply?!? *hmmm*
Martin
Hi Becca. I am not able (at this size) to accurately differentiate between these two spiders. However, I have seen the mother animals and I know where they were collected and so on. I'm confident that, when large enough, an examination will reveal that the first picture is sp. "Vietnam" and the second is sp."longipedum" (FryLock was right ;-))@Lopez: How were you able to differentiate between the two pictured?
The coloration of the femur and carapace of each looks slightly different and the leg stripes appear to be a little different. Is this true or is it just from the flash?
Exactly indeed also ppl tend to get an "Artist's eye" for the small points of things they really like but that may not extend to everything in an overall group, i used to be post mad but iv (slowly) learned to curb it as time as gone on and try not add "noise" were i don't think i really have a clue ;PLopez said:I know a little about Asian spiders, so will attempt to help answer questions about them. I know very little about South American spiders so I hardly ever post in threads with questions about them. If I posted in an "ID my Grammostola" I wouldn't chip in with "Looks like an iheringi to me!" when I have sod-all knowledge on the matter!
That's indeed the only thing I tried to focus on when looking at the two pictures (where colours known to be unreliable best to put it aside) had iv have seen them on there own I would still have thought the 1st picture to have been H.sp "Vietnam" purely on general appearance, but if the second pic of H.sp "longipedum" had been on it's own it would have been more difficult as I don't own any and have not seen many at that age/size, seeing them side by side made things clearer, unless of course a full exam proves them to be something else .Lopez said:I am not able (at this size) to accurately differentiate between these two spiders. However, I have seen the mother animals and I know where they were collected and so on. I'm confident that, when large enough, an examination will reveal that the first picture is sp. "Vietnam" and the second is sp."longipedum" (FryLock was right ;-))
Yes the colouration is slightly different but that's not really relevant. There is more pronounced striation on the front legs of "longipedum" juveniles, and the Leg IV is already slightly enlarged, although the setae are yet to develop fully. Note that the leg IV also adopts a different posture to the others at rest on "longipedum", something it shares with lividum.
Yes exactamugo! plus when ever possible following up and looking at things they have talked about also taking the time to follow up links or look for papers they mention and also hunt for others on the net (despite the fact most of them are based on just colour and morphometry), thing is many Q's get raised so many times and ppl still don't seem to remeber the good stuff that many ppl have posted both here and on other fourms in some case it's new ppl and can be excused but not all the time .Lopez said:Leon (learned all I know from actually LISTENING to Martin, Soren, Volker and Steve Nunn instead of moaning at them for not giving the answers I wanted to hear, and building on that information with my own experieces)
I ALWAYS make the burrows for my T...then let them decorateBotar said:Try taping up a piece of construction paper on the outside of the tank along the burrow. If it burrows against the glass, this will sometimes minimize the amount of webbing the spider will put on the glass. Then when you want to see it, you just raise the construction paper and take a look. If you don't do that, it will most likely web heavily on the glass.
Botar