White Lady Spider of Namibia

[Andrew climance]

Ok, not a tarantula I know, but I have been offered a specimen of Leucorchestris arenicola (the White Lady spider of Namibia) and before I commit, I wondered if anyone has any experience with this species?

Your comments would be much appreciated.

He has also offered me an Avic. avic., but I reckon I know about these little beggers already!!!

[Ray Gabriel]

Dont you need some sand dunes for the white lady spider to roll down? LOL

I also thought Namibia was closed for export? or maybe that is just for reptiles.

And as for A. avicularia.......................well no one has these ............... dealers sell Avicularia sp Guyana as Avicularia avicularia but no specimens from the pet trade have ever been compared with the specimens in the Linnean collection (untill Richard Gallon Andy Smith and myself last year) so at present no one knows what A. avicularia looks like.

Ray

[Andrew climance]

Ray,

As far as the White Lady goes, yes it is currently kept on coarse white sand (don't know which type exactly) but I don't think it will be doing any rolling. The guy has a couple of tubes of bark, which the spider has webbed and it has also made a 'tube' burrow in the sand. Apparently, it moves from home to home fairly regularly...

I don't know where he bought it, maybe I should ask...

As for the Avic... is that true? When I last kept Ts, long ago, they were all called Avicularia avicularia... I have a lot to re-/unlearn, it seems!

Back to the White Lady, am I possibly over-stretching myself too early, do you think. Given my (almost) two losses in the past week, I am starting to have doubts.

[mary walters]

I had a couple of these last year I think it was, no 2005, they didn't live very long, one produced an egg sac and ate it. I liked them though and would have another if possible. I kept mine on damp vermiculite, mainly because I couldn't find any reference to them on the web.......
Mine never webbed up much or used the hides I gave them.

[Andrew climance]

Thanks Mary, what sort of size did they get to? I'm struggling to find any decent info...