ID assistance

[DevinsCreatures]

This is definitely an Aphonopelma species, but it’s difficult to say which particular species. Was sold as an Aphonopelma hentzi, which she is definitively not.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated! This girl is very light all over, even her femurs are very light.

 

[arachbiodude]

I think it is. Texas Brown.

 

[MBullock]

This is hentzi. Note the extremely dense grizzled setae on the femurs- this feature is not present in anax or armada.

Armada has much shorter setae all over, more velvety looking, same with anax. Anax looks like armada, complete with velvety integument, but is more massively built with really thick legs and a huge cephalothorax

 

[DevinsCreatures]

This is hentzi. Note the extremely dense grizzled setae on the femurs- this feature is not present in anax or armada.

Armada has much shorter setae all over, more velvety looking, same with anax. Anax looks like armada, complete with velvety integument, but is more massively built with really thick legs and a huge cephalothorax

Thanks for the feedback and I agree with the body layout, but the color is throwing me off. She’s so much lighter than any other Aphonopelma hentzi I’ve seen. Even if she’s premolt, she’s very very light.

This is a picture of my paired mature female Aphonopelma hentzi. This girl has no trace of any of the darkness of A. hentzi.

 

[MBullock]

Thanks for the feedback and I agree with the body layout, but the color is throwing me off. She’s so much lighter than any other Aphonopelma hentzi I’ve seen. Even if she’s premolt, she’s very very light.

This is a picture of my paired mature female Aphonopelma hentzi. This girl has no trace of any of the darkness of A. hentzi.

Color itself is a poor method of identifying aphonopelma in general unless you have a trained eye and observe them in the wild and figure out all the different morphs and color phases. cephalothorax measurements are a better way to identify them, generally. Especially when it comes to telling iodius and eutylenum apart.