I am looking for specimens (adults or juveniles) of Euathlus pulcherrimaklaasi with the aim of breeding this species. This is not going to be easy, as I am not aware of any available in the hobby – however, I hope to be proved wrong!
The biggest challenge is over the species identification. The spider was described by Schmidt in 1991 with the collection site being in Ecuador. I have seen spiders for sale pertaining to be this species but they were misidentified. Just to confuse matters, I have seen similar names (for example, Euathlus or Paraphysa pulcherrimuklaasi) applied to similar looking spiders; again, none of them the true spider.
So to help anyone out there who believes they may have this species, below is a link to a picture taken by Guy Tansley of his now dead (unfortunately) female specimen. The key identifiers (as best as I can describe) are: grey/silver carapace (slightly ’woolly’ in appearance), red stripes on the knees and, most strikingly of all, dark blue/navy colour to the femurs.
If anyone can help, please contact myself, Ray Gabriel or Guy Tansley.
Many thanks
Stephen
(stephenccopley@aol.com)
LINK - http://giantspiders.com/webpics/euathlus.jpg
If the link takes too long to download, I can arrange to send a small version of the pic direct.
The biggest challenge is over the species identification. The spider was described by Schmidt in 1991 with the collection site being in Ecuador. I have seen spiders for sale pertaining to be this species but they were misidentified. Just to confuse matters, I have seen similar names (for example, Euathlus or Paraphysa pulcherrimuklaasi) applied to similar looking spiders; again, none of them the true spider.
So to help anyone out there who believes they may have this species, below is a link to a picture taken by Guy Tansley of his now dead (unfortunately) female specimen. The key identifiers (as best as I can describe) are: grey/silver carapace (slightly ’woolly’ in appearance), red stripes on the knees and, most strikingly of all, dark blue/navy colour to the femurs.
If anyone can help, please contact myself, Ray Gabriel or Guy Tansley.
Many thanks
Stephen
(stephenccopley@aol.com)
LINK - http://giantspiders.com/webpics/euathlus.jpg
If the link takes too long to download, I can arrange to send a small version of the pic direct.
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