Help with ID

[Colin D Wilson]

Looks like a juvenile iheringi to me too (of todays variety anyway).

for reference on the abdominal "look" which of course varies within species anyway to a certain extent. (adult specimens)

acteaon...


iheringi...


If you look in some spider books from the 1980's the acteaon shows hardly any (if none) red setae on the abdomen and looks like a slimmer pulchra.
This doesn't mean that the subject of the photography was correct back then though, Grammostola have been a mix up for longer than that where imports have been concerned...mainly due to importers in the 80's using common names and pet shops looking in books and naming their spiders for sale as the one they look closest to.
More than likely the cause of many odd "hybrid" looking spiders today.

[lee dangerfield]

I'd put my money on a..grammostola cala.... the chilean beautiful

[Colin D Wilson]

G cala hasn't been used since 2000 Lee...back to good old G rosea now (for the moment at least )

[mary walters]

Colin is ya grammy man

[David Blades]

Looks like a juvenile iheringi to me too (of todays variety anyway).

for reference on the abdominal "look" which of course varies within species anyway to a certain extent. (adult specimens)

acteaon...


iheringi...


If you look in some spider books from the 1980's the acteaon shows hardly any (if none) red setae on the abdomen and looks like a slimmer pulchra.
This doesn't mean that the subject of the photography was correct back then though, Grammostola have been a mix up for longer than that where imports have been concerned...mainly due to importers in the 80's using common names and pet shops looking in books and naming their spiders for sale as the one they look closest to.
More than likely the cause of many odd "hybrid" looking spiders today.

Thanks for this Colin.... I'll take some more pictures tonight to see if that helps.