Brachypelma sabulosum
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Brachypelma cf. sabulosum , female |
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Brachypelma sabulosum is aspecies of Guatemalan tarantula. It was discovered in the area around the ancient city of Tikal , near Lake Petén-Itzá in the Peten department. It was described as Eurypelma sabulosum by FOP-Cambridge in 1897. Since then, only female animals of this species have been scientifically described. It has a basic black color and longer red hair on the abdomen. It resembles the species Brachypelma angustum , Brachypelma vagans , Brachypelma kahlenbergi , Brachypelma epicureanum and can be confused with these species.
features
The females reach a length of seven centimeters, making them one of the larger representatives of their genus. The species resembles Brachypelma angustum and also, albeit less strongly, Brachypelma vagans , especially in their juvenile stages. But in the adult stage it has less red hair on the abdomen than B. vagans .
The carapace in the females of B. sabulosum is a little longer than it is wide (26 by 24 millimeters) and has chocolate brown hairs. The legs have clearly light stripes, similar to the tarantula species Aphonopelma seemanni . These are located at the base of the protarsus and across the entire top of the tibia and patellae . In the femora , the stripes are imperceptibly present. The sperm library is slightly indented in the middle of B. sabulosum . As a result, it is not as trapezoidal as in B. vagans , but also not as strongly indented as in B. kahlenbergi .
Web links
Brachypelma sabulosum in the World Spider Catalog
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinz-Josef Peters: Tarantulas of the World: America's tarantulas. Self-published, Wegberg 2003, ISBN 3-933443-06-7 , p. 124.
- ↑ Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge: Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 1897, pp. 1-40.
- ↑ Jan-Peter Rudloff: A new Brachypelma species from Mexico (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). In: Arthropoda. 16 (2), 2008, pp. 26-30.