Unidentifed T Picture from Texas

rtshaw80

rtshaw80

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Greetings all,

My girlfriend was hiking in Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande in Texas a couple summers ago and took a few pictures of a male T on the prowl for females during the day.

Any Ideas on what it may be?
 

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h11te

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In pic 1 i woud say some kind of a aphonopelma, but im pic 2 i will go for a b ruhnaui.
Hey, you shoud have posted them in 2 different threads {D

Rune
 
Jakob

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I'm pretty sure that what you have found is a male Aphonopelma anax

Later,

Jake
 
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Come On!

Ok people before you start going off and listing possible names for an unidentified tarantula at least look at a range map for the species your listing. Brachypelma ruhanaui doesn’t come within about 300 miles of Texas, the only genus that has been identified in the United States is Aphonoplema (Yes Texas is in the US) So please do your research before making a dumb response.

Sincerely,

Brandon
 
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How many species of tarantulas are in the USA?
Tanks (char d'assaut)
Dom
 
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JakeRocks said:
I'm pretty sure that what you have found is a male Aphonopelma anax

Later,

Jake
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For sure not A. anax. Not even close to the range. Gee it's just nearly impossible to make an identification for that spider when so many species' ranges overlap. For example, the 'New Mexican Blonde' and the 'Carlsbad Green' are both found in west texas totally making those common names sound stupid.

I thought A. chalcodes to be possible, but I'm not certain that they range into Texas either.
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You're right, A. chalcodes does not occur in Texas.

As for how many species there are in the U.S.A. officially, about 40 I think but the number of undescribed or confused species will surely outnumber the official figure.

-Lonnie
 
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Brandon said:
Ok people before you start going off and listing possible names for an unidentified tarantula at least look at a range map for the species your listing. Brachypelma ruhanaui doesn’t come within about 300 miles of Texas, the only genus that has been identified in the United States is Aphonoplema (Yes Texas is in the US) So please do your research before making a dumb response.

Sincerely,

Brandon
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OH NO! Run! Hide!! It's BRANDON!!!! ;)

Long time no see, Kiddo! ;)

Wysi
 
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rtshaw80 said:
Greetings all,

My girlfriend was hiking in Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande in Texas a couple summers ago and took a few pictures of a male T on the prowl for females during the day.

Any Ideas on what it may be?
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Which species as the common name "Rio Grand Gold"?

That's what it looks like to me, especially since it was
found along the Rio Grand. On the other hand, there's
another species called a "Rio Grand Copper" though that
might be the hentzi.

Looking at the pix from e-spiderworld, it DOES look like
an anax, so maybe that's the one called the RG Gold.

Whatever it is, it's a great-looking critter! I wouldn't mind
having one of those!

Wysi

P.S. I should guess it's a B. smithi, just to annoy Brandon! ;)
 
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i might not know what kind it is... but even if it looks like a "non-native", it could have been a "escaped" pet, a "hitchhiker" or an unwanted pet that got let go...never know
i 've seen a gray/brown tarantula a few years ago in a store...when i was working and had to clean a toybin... and yes i was still quite arachnophobic at the time.
first i thought it to be a toy and almost picked it up..but my phobia stopped me..it was real..and it looked more like a T' than a wolfspider. unless they get 5 or 6 " .
i'm in sacramento area in cali... don't know what we got here running wild.
and in my native germany i only seen little spiders.. well the ocational "cross-spider", thats it
 
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WYSIWYG said:
Which species as the common name "Rio Grand Gold"?

That's what it looks like to me, especially since it was
found along the Rio Grand. On the other hand, there's
another species called a "Rio Grand Copper" though that
might be the hentzi.

Looking at the pix from e-spiderworld, it DOES look like
an anax, so maybe that's the one called the RG Gold.

Whatever it is, it's a great-looking critter! I wouldn't mind
having one of those!

Wysi

P.S. I should guess it's a B. smithi, just to annoy Brandon! ;)
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Here's what I would call a Rio Grand Gold ( Aphonopelma moderatum)

Cheers
 

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Brandon said:
Ok people before you start going off and listing possible names for an unidentified tarantula at least look at a range map for the species your listing. Brachypelma ruhanaui doesn’t come within about 300 miles of Texas, the only genus that has been identified in the United States is Aphonoplema (Yes Texas is in the US) So please do your research before making a dumb response.

Sincerely,

Brandon
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come on brandon,
you know not everybody knows that or cares to look it up,

Sam,
 
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Based on location found and referring to Common Names of Arachnids
2003, Fifth Edition (The American Arachnological Society Committee on Common Names of Arachnids), A. texense does not exist as a species. I would go with A. anax based on the southern location.
 
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damn if only you had posted that 2 years ago, it might have been relevant ;P ;P

lol, sorry

Camberwell
 
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Freak Show

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LOL!

I saw the date but didn't notice the year.

Guess I'm a big dumb dummy, huh? :wall:
 
stubby8th

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rtshaw80 said:
Greetings all,

My girlfriend was hiking in Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande in Texas a couple summers ago and took a few pictures of a male T on the prowl for females during the day.

Any Ideas on what it may be?
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Although many sp. of Aphonopelma are quite similar in this region, I would call this one Aphonopelma hentzi or clarki.
A.anax is only found in south Texas, by the way.
 
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