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> Ok, i'd like to hear something more than one is "Rather well banded" and "Moderately banded". A useful question is can THESE interbreed (with live viable young).Like I said before I will keep each one separate, in my opinion it would be wise for everyone else to do the same but I understand that everyone has their own opinion. With version II geniculata and version II brocklehursti they are different to doubt about it. Maybe my friend Travis can post if he ever gets off his butt to post. He could explain a bit better than I would of what he sees between the two. Travis lives a few miles away from me and he has personally seen all the specimens.
> In Acanthoscurria, there's been a whole lot of seemingly random species names tagged onto hobbystock without much care. Again those are beautiful spiders and great photos. One thing of value would be to photograph males as subadult as well as adult, as you know they change dramatically. Preserving mature specimens is also a vital step to help get the hobby naming system more realistic and stable. Did you consider Acanthoscurria juruenicola? Those are in the same stocky group as A.geniculata, A.simoensi and A.chacoana. The banding on the knees/legs can be quite variable in A.juruenicola, like many other species - e.g. see G.pulchripes. Yes, i have contact with Dr. Bertani, but here i think here Dr. Lucas's lab/collaborators have more experience with Acanthoscurria, but none i'd say have much interest in pettrade material without locality etc. (much value is lost). I'd suggest consult next with Ray Gabriel in UK - and indeed perhaps send him the moults, who is collaborating with them, and he likes to know what's going on in the trade/captive breedings. I'll send you a message by pm.I do have one last question, I got a hold of Rick West late last year about my Acanthoscurria fracta. During our conversation regarding on now the fracta is a whole different spider than the one that I have as fracta, we both agree for me to send him the molts of the two females once called fracta. Once Rick West had the molts he was suppose to send photos of the molts and spermathecae to Dr. Rogerio Bertani for further studies to determine what species it could possibly be. Do you by any chance have any contact with Dr. Rogerio Bertani? My younger female once called fracta molted again and I would like to send the molt to someone that would be interested in examining the molt for further studies. Of course I can send the molt as Non Commercial Scientific Studies. Would this be possible?
Really nice photos again, thanks for sharing!I know is a long shot but I really looking for answers on this one. Here are a couple of photos of the mature male and one of my females before her molt, after her molt and a photo of the spermathecae.