Grammostola grossa

Grammostola grossa
Grammostola grossa
Systematics
Order : Spiders (Araneae) Subordination : Tarantulas (Mygalomorphae) Family : Tarantulas (Theraphosidae) Subfamily : Theraphosinae Genre : Grammostola Type : Grammostola grossa
Scientific name
Grammostola grossa
( Ausserer , 1871)

Grammostola grossa is a tarantula that, like all species of the genus Grammostola, originates from South America. It occurs in Brazil , Paraguay , Uruguay and Argentina .

features

With a body length of up to 8 cm, it is one of the larger representatives of the tarantulas. It has a black-brown basic color and brown hair. Like all Grammostola species, it has a clearly visible level of stinging hair on the abdomen ( opisthosoma ), so it is one of the so-called "bombardier spiders" that can defend itself with stinging hair. Females should be able to live up to 25 years.

behavior

Grammostola grossa is an earth-dwelling tarantula . It hides under roots, pieces of bark, stones or fallen leaves. In the colder months as well as during molting and brood care, it retreats into caves that it lines with spider silk.

Due to the changes in the habitat caused by humans due to animal husbandry, arable farming and the timber industry, this species could spread. Many spiders can be found in the pastures and forest edges.

Keeping in the terrarium

Many animals of this type are kept in terrariums. They have been available from specialist retailers since the 1980s, initially under the wrong species name Grammostola pulchripes . This was identified in 1994 by Günter EW Schmidt as G. grossa . It was sometimes offered under the false species name Grammostola mollicoma , which in turn is a synonym for another species of tarantula ( Grammostola anthracina ).

Web links

Commons : Grammostola grossa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Grammostola grossa in the World Spider Catalog

• Biotropics.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Klaas: Tarantulas in the Terrarium , Eugen Ulmer & Co., Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8001-7933-4 , pp. 99 - 100 ( syn.Gramostola pulchripes )
2. ↑ Günter Schmidt: Die Vogelspinnen , Westarp Wissenschaften-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hohenwarsleben 2003, ISBN 3-8943-2899-1 , p. 39 and p. 171–173
3. ↑ Peter Klaas: tarantulas / origin, care, species , Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2003, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4660-4 , pp. 88–91
4. ^ Schmidt G., 1994: Grammostola pulchripes is a synonym of G. grossa. Arachnol. Mag. 2 (7): 23.