Tarantula ID?

[James Ryder]

Hi I'm from South Africa, I bought this from a guy here, it is not local and no one here has any idea what species this Tarantula is.
Can anybody help me?

[Mark Pennell]

Hi I'm from South Africa, I bought this from a guy here, it is not local and no one here has any idea what species this Tarantula is.
Can anybody help me?

James
Hard to tell from that image, do you have one where is fully spread out and recovered from its molt.

Regards
Mark

[Rebecca Norris]

As Mark said is not the best picture but looks to me like Phormictopus cancerides?

[James Ryder]

New pic

Not great quality sorry?

[Rebecca Norris]

Look anything like this?

http://www.beccastarantulas.com/tarantulas/caresheets/P1120519_Small.JPG

Phormictopus cancerides

[James Ryder]

Tarantula ID?

Spoke to one of the guys here in South Africa that knows his stuff, and he says that its diffently not a P. Cancerides due to the shape of the legs and the hair on the legs, ill try post a better pic later on.

[matthew spooner]

not really sure but i would say g.pulchra. like i said im not sure though, someone will prob totally slate me for saying it due to something that means it obviously isnt lol

[Mrs Linda Street]

The P. Cancerides adult males usually have purplish iridescence on the carapace and basal segments of the legs, so I don't think it's that as the pic shows a green tinge?

[Rebecca Norris]

But the name of the picture is haitian... the common name for cancerides is haitian brown (only just noticed the picture name lol)

[Nicola Dolby]

Its certainly not anything I've heard of from the region but I'm pretty sure its not cancerides either. I'd say it MIGHT be Ornithoctonus?? Doesn't look like a MM either, so immature male or female. How big is the critter? Did the seller give you an idea of the part of the world it came from?

[Nicola Dolby]

Scrap the previous post, look at the carapace and compare with Ephebopus/Aphonopelma on the gallery here!

[James Ryder]

Tarantula ID?

It was sold as a hatian blue, it was blueish as a Sling but doesn't resemble a P. Cancerides, it diffently not local because of its size and it is has been sexed as a female, she is pushing 20cm + and is going into premoult now, oh is diffently new world T. Her behaviour is that of a L. paraybana and is very aggressive and chills out in the open with no real hide. She has grown at a alarming rate, from 4in to over 8in in less than a year. Ill post pics of its shed skin tonight and better pics of it spread out.

[James Box]

be interesting to see what it is, but doesn't seem right for Phormictopus!
it looks fairly "new world" just from those pics, though...

i've just done a google search for "Haitian blue" tarantula and found a reference to P atrichromatus, however! it's called "Haitian blue giant" by the site i found. but common names being what they are, it's hard to say.
what other species are from Haiti?

[Rebecca Norris]

It was blue as a sling, its like a para but aggressive, grown quickly and its big... Sounds like cancerides to me LOL

[James Box]

ooh i misread that! yeah a blue sling does lend some extra credence to the Phormictopus theory
it just doesn't look quite like the ones i've seen in the pic, but pic IDs are never good!