Cyriopagopus lividus
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Cyriopagopus lividus ( Syn .: Haplopelma lividum Smith , 1996 ), sometimes also called "Blue Burma tarantula", "Blue Thai" or "Cobalt blue tarantula", is a species of spider from the genus Cyriopagopus withinthe tarantula family (Theraphosidae), which mainly in Myanmar , the former Burma, as well as in Thailand .
habitat
It lives in the damp forests of its range, but can also be found there in plantations.
description
Cyriopagopus lividus is a rather small to medium-sized tarantula species with a maximum body length of five centimeters. It has an elongated, gray carapace . The abdomen has a color gradient from gray at the base to bluish at the spinnerets . The abdomen also has a black longitudinal line. The femur is black with a bluish tinge. From the patella to the tarsi , the spider is dark blue in color. The body hair is very short and the body shape is generally very slim.
Way of life
Cyriopagopus lividus is a tube-dwelling spider , i. H. it lives in self-dug and up to 50 centimeters deep living tubes, which it rarely leaves.
It feeds mainly on insects , e.g. B. crickets , grasshoppers and cockroaches . As soon as it senses prey in the vicinity of its tube, it leaps out in a flash, overwhelms the prey and retreats back to its shelter to eat.
This spider species usually reacts defensively to a threat by hiding in its living tube. However, if there is no shelter available, it will become aggressive, quick and unpredictable and defend itself with poisonous bites.
It can be kept in a terrarium .
Systematics and taxonomy
In the past, it was often confused with the rare blue Malaysia tarantula ( Omothymus violaceopes ) because of its color and was sold under the species name Lampropelma violaceopes in pet shops. Although this species also belongs to the Ornithoctoninae , it occurs in Malaysia and Singapore and, in contrast to the tube- dwelling Cyriopagopus lividus, lives in the cavities of trees. These inconsistencies prompted Andrew Smith in 1996 to describe the "blue tarantula", which had been on the market in Europe since 1988, as a new species and to assign it to the then genus Haplopelma under the name Haplopelma lividum . Later it was transferred to the genus Cyriopagopus together with all other Haplopelma species during a revision of the subfamily of Andrew M. Smith and Michael A. Jacobi .
In 2010 the Haplopelma species of that time, with the exception of the type species Haplopelma doriae , which was placed in the genus Ornithoctonus , were summarized by Günter EW Schmidt under the re-established synonym Melopoeus Pocock, 1895. The scientific name of the Thai blue tarantula would therefore be Melopoeus lividus after this revision .
literature
- Peter Klaas: Tarantulas: Origin, Care, Species. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2003 ISBN 3-8001-3696-1
- Günter Schmidt: tarantulas, way of life - key to determination - husbandry - breeding. Landbuch Verlag, Hannover 1993, pp. 77-82 ISBN 3-7842-0484-8
- Volker von Wirth and Martin Huber: Some practical tips for keeping Haplopelma species and other tarantulas that inhabit tube. In: DeArGe Mitteilungen 7, 11, pp. 14–23, 2002 ( table of contents ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Smith, AM & Jacobi, MA: Revision of the genus Phormingochilus with the description of three new species from Sulawesi and Sarawak and notes on the placement of the genera Cyriopagopus, Lampropelma and Omothymus. British Tarantula Society Journal 30 (3), 2015, pp. 25-48.
- ↑ Günter Schmidt: Notes on Haplopelma SIMON, 1892, Melopoeus POCOCK, 1895 and Ornithoctonus POCOCK, 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ornithoctoninae). Tarantulas of the World, Special Edition 142, pp. 30–34, July 2010
