Please ID my Lasiodora

[Nicholo Plaza]

[Lee Corless]

That is a L. parahybana, Salmon Pink Bird Eater. Any one else agree ?

[Nicholo Plaza]

I'm not quite sure if it is. From the parahybana I have and from the photos Ive seen of various specimens, parahybanas just look big and grey. Also, their knee markings aren't quite as distinct as the ones in this lasiodora.

Though, I'd like to know more opinions as well.

[Lee Corless]

Yes i see what you mean about her leg markings. Now i am not so sure myself.

[Larry Shone]

Yes i see what you mean about her leg markings. Now i am not so sure myself.

how many Lasiodora species are there? i only know parahybana and difficilis.

[Jamie Walker]

Lasiodaora klugi?

Looks similar to mine. Although I'm not to good at I.D.'ing tarantulas!

[Nicholo Plaza]

klugi, parahybana and difficilis are the more common ones, at least here in north america. Theres a few others in the market as well but i cant remember their names. Klugi is known for its very bulky and stocky appearance.

[Peter Lacey]

Hi

There's 5 described species of Lasiodora: http://thebts.co.uk/forums/gallery/index.php?cat=589
and there's also Lasiodorides: http://thebts.co.uk/forums/gallery/index.php?cat=611

I have an 8" female L. klugi, the bulkiest of the Lasiodora genus, which looks very similar to yours. I can't say 100% certain but I'd opt for L. klugi from my experience. It certainly doesn't look like my L. difficils and I agree with the differences you have suggested with L. parahybana.

Of course, IDing a tarantula from a photo is never easy (at least for me) but hopefully someone like Ray Gabriel will give a more accurate indication.

[Nicholo Plaza]

Hi Peter,

Do you happen to have a photo of your L.Klugi lying around? I'd like to see it for comparison. And yes, I do agree that identifying a tarantula through a photo is never easy. In the photos, she looks quite brown when she is actually fairly black. my photos may be slightly over exposed. But still, looking at her in my tank, she still looks way too different from parahybanas.

[Zoltan Mihaly Lestyan]

There's 5 described species of Lasiodora: http://thebts.co.uk/forums/gallery/index.php?cat=589.

The BTS Theraphosidae Gallery (mostly) contains images of species present in the hobby, but it's not an all-inclusive catalog of described Theraphosidae. There are currently 38 described species of Lasiodora + 1 subspecies: http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/...APHOSIDAE.html This number will be reduced to 6 by a revision which is, as of now, unpublished.

[Phil Rea]

The BTS Theraphosidae Gallery (mostly) contains images of species present in the hobby, but it's not an all-inclusive catalog of described Theraphosidae. There are currently 38 described species of Lasiodora + 1 subspecies: http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/...APHOSIDAE.html This number will be reduced to 6 by a revision which is, as of now, unpublished.

Lasiodora C. L. Koch, 1850

• Lasiodora acanthognatha Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora benedeni Bertkau, 1880
• Lasiodora boliviana (Simon, 1892)
• Lasiodora brevibulba (Valerio, 1980)
• Lasiodora carinata (Valerio, 1980)
• Lasiodora citharacantha Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora cristata (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
• Lasiodora cryptostigma Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora curtior Chamberlin, 1917
• Lasiodora differens Chamberlin, 1917
• Lasiodora difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora dolichosterna Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora dulcicola Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora erythrocythara Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora fallax (Bertkau, 1880)
• Lasiodora fracta Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora gutzkei (Reichling, 1997)
• Lasiodora icecu (Valerio, 1980)
• Lasiodora isabellina (Ausserer, 1871)
• Lasiodora itabunae Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora klugi (C. L. Koch, 1841)
• Lasiodora lakoi Mello-Leitão, 1943
• Lasiodora mariannae Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora moreni (Holmberg, 1876)
• Lasiodora panamana (Petrunkevitch, 1925)
• Lasiodora pantherina (Keyserling, 1891)
• Lasiodora parahybana Mello-Leitão, 1917
• Lasiodora parvior (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936)
• Lasiodora pleoplectra Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora puriscal (Valerio, 1980)
• Lasiodora rubitarsa (Valerio, 1980)
• Lasiodora saeva (Walckenaer, 1837)
• Lasiodora spinipes Ausserer, 1871
• Lasiodora sternalis (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
• Lasiodora striatipes (Ausserer, 1871)
• Lasiodora subcanens Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lasiodora tetrica (Simon, 1889)
• Lasiodora trinitatis (Pocock, 1903)
• Lasiodora trinitatis pauciaculeis (Strand, 1916)
  

[edit] - Anyone aware of the status of Bertani's paper?

[Peter Lacey]

wow, I realised there were more outside the hobby but not to that extent, impressive.

Here's my suspected female L. difficilis



Here's one of my L. klugi, I'll try to find some better ones.

[Larry Shone]

Are the two genii Lasiodora and Lasidorides actually closely related, or is it simply a case of the latter superficially resembling the former? (I'm used to the suffix ops or opsis in the plant world)

[Phil Rea]

The plural of genus is genera

I don't have a copy of the paper, so I can't help with the differences.