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What’s the measurements on the monstrosa, given the size of this one I posted I would say tenebris does not look to be the same as monstrosa, too leggy. This one must be 8” now with a 28-29mm carapace. Of course I’m only looking at your scale drawings of monstrosa vs intermida. One thing I...

Believe it or not that was Andrew Smith’s suggestion when I first sent him Hysterocrates sp. Nigeria as potentially a new species back in 2013 - I like the name personally, but Goliath seems synonymous with size. The potential for a Samson type pun is pretty funny though, at worst you’ll get a...

The biggest one I have is 6 years old and around the 9” mark. I’ve got 3 others at over 8” also 6. The current gen, were these females bred to an approx 7.5” male - So I’m really excited to see if they exceed the parents, only a few months old and some are huge, 2.5” range. Been tempted to get...

Right was bang on the money, just over 7.5” carapace 27x22 if I pressed it down lightly I got around 24 - So there you have it. She looks to have grown another .5” and the carapace grew by a fair chunk, shown in the pic. Shame she ejected her leg, but it got a little broken a few months prior...

Hello, yeah she’s at least 7.5” - When she sheds I’ll get you some measurements

Hysterocrates sp. “Goliath” Project Info Video Here is a video talking about my project and goals / motivators.

Another update for you - The carapace is actually 44mm - I didn’t realise she had the old carapace stuck on top and it popped off - Enjoy this is one of the bulkiest spiders you will ever see. Her fangs are enormous - Over 1”long Remember the old depiction of Megarachne in the Walking with...

So still around 9” as shown at the end of the vid. But 23.4cm “stretched” or as I call it straightened out - since the legs never sit flat unless forced. It’s her carapace that’s really crazy - 42mm, Saw another guy posted here with an 8.3” + LP - Looks like he didn’t straighten the legs out...

Old post, but I feel it’s relevant to the topic, and made me laugh at the guys who were saying it wasn’t even 8”

Pairing

Wanted to post an update as the current gen has just produced an absolute unit of a male spider, over 7” legspan. The project is alive and well, will be breeding him back to one of my big females which are all over 8” the largest tipping close to 9”

Not a sp. Nigeria - thick back legs

Well that’s a bit out of my scope to have them deposited at a museum considering I cannot even know the locality of them, gigas is the closest match. I’m at generation 3 with two different sets of large adults (to keep genetic diversity), So still early on in the project (that’s taken 13 years...

That’s not a sp. Cameroon - those small, thin leg IV, that’s a laticeps.

If they are WC and you know the locality, sp. Cameroon, sp. Nigeria. Although, you said hercules, which is what I had imported from Germany and it ended up being a gigas. Sp. Nigeria imported have rake thin leg IV.

That was my assessment based on keeping many specimens of those species minus the last two of which I looked at the research papers. I also have a lot of literature on the genus as a whole, Andrew Smiths book, Richard Gallons research papers, and other documents. It’s a basic way to identify and...

Can see swellings on the tibia

I didn’t see that until you pointed it out because it’s all curled up. Hercules not, because anything imported from Nigeria is laticeps. Because it’s curled up I couldn’t see the carapace which is also an important defining feature.

I don't think any of these look to have come from Nigeria - Would have to check if gigas range extends up that far, I'd stick with what I said on the two species listed above being the closest match. Here is that video I said I would do:

Either Juvenile crassipes, or gigas - hard to tell, if it keeps the thickened leg IV once it's above 6" most likely crassipes.. i'm doing a video on this on my Youtube channel, will link here when done. Also I got the name wrong for one above it's actually hysterocrates elephantiasis. Sometimes...