Sold as Citharacanthus spinicrus (ex Eurypelma spinicrus)

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  SkittleBunny

• Oct 2, 2019

I hate the way they make the fangs on these taxiderms.. otherwise cool. Sorry no advice on sp.

 

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  atraxrobustus

• Oct 2, 2019

I cant find a good reference photo of E. Spinicrus but given the appearance, this does look a lot like Theraphosa apophysis.

 

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  Ultum4Spiderz

• Oct 2, 2019

What’s it cost to taxidermy a dead T ? R.I.P. little critters

 

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  Vanessa

• Oct 2, 2019

Are they even in good enough condition to identify to a species level? How much is a 'bunch'? Were they killed just to be sold for taxidermy? What a crime.

 

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  Andrea82

• Oct 2, 2019

@Vanessa my thoughts exactly. I really really really hope these were not killed for sales

 

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  Rigor Mortis

• Oct 2, 2019

@Vanessa @Andrea82 I used to work at a place that would buy these in bulk (more than 10 at a time) and while the vendor didn't say where they got the spiders from, unfortunately I'd hazard a guess they were collected specifically for this purpose.

As far as species, I haven't the foggiest idea and honestly I'd be willing to bet the vendor doesn't either.

 

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  Ron Fults

• Oct 2, 2019

@Andrea82 I'm with you on this but knowing human nature and greed, I'm willing to bet the farm they were killed specifically for this purpose and to make a dollar. Sick really IMO.

 

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  Vanessa

• Oct 2, 2019

Is the conservation status ever consulted for something like that? Not that it isn't bad enough if they aren't endangered/threatened.
As if they need another hit to their survival.

 

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  Ultum4Spiderz

• Oct 2, 2019

@Andrea82 yeah good chance they were sick evil poachers . Lots of Asian species could go extinct from diff like this along with killing spiders to eat .
Twisted right !!!

 

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  Arachnid Addicted

• Oct 2, 2019

Eurypelma is a really old genus that actually had lots of species from currently genera in it. I dont remember exactly, but maybe, Eurypelma was one of the first new world genus described so, some species of Aphonopelma, Brachypelma, Grammostola, and lots of other genera were once known as Eurypelma.

Citharacanthus was another genus that was known as Eurypelma and E. spinicrus is currently known as C. spinicrus.

Now, I'm not familiar with this genus, but given that this spider on the pic was taxidermized (is that a word? Lol) and lost its colors, I believe it could be a Citharacanthus spinicrus, indeed.