Aphonopelma mooreae

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wow:eek: nice find! never seen it in the hobby.....nor have i heard of it, a beutiful T nonetheless, thank you for sharing:)
 
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Wow.....wow......but I bet they take FOREVER to grow to maturity.....
 
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A very large portion of Aphonopelma's range into/in the US. So I'd assume its quite possible this species does as well, especially if they're in Mexico.

I don't know anything about this species though, so I don't know.
But I agree with Lucanidae, those things must take a long time to mature! I mean, in all fairness, look how long it takes like anax and chalcodes...

Don't we all love Rick C. West's site?:D
 
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Just to bring this thread back as a sp. that HAS to be promoted for the colorful T lovers everywhere, has anyone located any? Beautiful T!
 
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Drachenjager said:
Just because Texas used to belong to Mexico dosent mean Mexico is in the USA now lol
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I know.

They can be found in the U.S. I know this for a fact.

There's users on this board who have collected them in the U.S. and have had them in captivity for a few years now.

Eric
 
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Alright... why don't some of y'all high mileage experts get on the stick and breed up some of these babies for the rest of us? I want one! I wonder, will these be super expensive like metallicas when they first really hit the CB market?

I'll trade a new computer for a few slings or juvies!
 
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GoTerps said:
I know.

They can be found in the U.S. I know this for a fact.

There's users on this board who have collected them in the U.S. and have had them in captivity for a few years now.

Eric
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Really ? thats cool . They dont show up anywhere as a species native to the us but neither does B. smithi lol But i have heard pretty reliable reports of them being native to certian places in Texas that i wont mention at this time lol
 
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Drachenjager said:
Really ? thats cool . They dont show up anywhere as a species native to the us but neither does B. smithi lol But i have heard pretty reliable reports of them being native to certian places in Texas that i wont mention at this time lol
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Smithi in Texas would be released or misidentified spiders since the Texas border is not close to the smithi distribution area in Mexico - or just a rumour. Perhaps someone meant the florida vagans population
 
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Crotalus said:
Smithi in Texas would be released or misidentified spiders since the Texas border is not close to the smithi distribution area in Mexico - or just a rumour. Perhaps someone meant the florida vagans population
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no they meant B. smithi.
but good answer lol
actually i dont know for a fact that the reports are correct. but i have heard it mentioned by a few people that should know.
However, i dont think we can rule out any Ts being native to Texas, we probably have decimated populations of Ts we didnt even know existed here.
If A. mooreae is here , why not B. smithi? or A. bicoloratum even?
 
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Drachenjager said:
no they meant B. smithi.
but good answer lol
actually i dont know for a fact that the reports are correct. but i have heard it mentioned by a few people that should know.
However, i dont think we can rule out any Ts being native to Texas, we probably have decimated populations of Ts we didnt even know existed here.
If A. mooreae is here , why not B. smithi? or A. bicoloratum even?
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Maybe Brent H. that study Aphonopelma have some additional info on the moorae in US.
Why not smithi is in Texas? Then it would be a small isolated pocket far away from its general distributiopn area and the only species in its genus north of Mexico. Not impossible, but not so likely either.
 
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ATS a few years back talked about them!

I think they were from New Mexico ? :?
 
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Crotalus said:
Maybe Brent H. that study Aphonopelma have some additional info on the moorae in US.
Why not smithi is in Texas? Then it would be a small isolated pocket far away from its general distributiopn area and the only species in its genus north of Mexico. Not impossible, but not so likely either.
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When it comes to Texas tarantula species , ill holler at Dave ... no offense to Brent, but Dave has been studying the Ts in Texas specifically for a good while ...Brent will have his hands full studying all the alledged aphonopelma in the USA ...and i am sure when he gets done there will be quite a bit fewer species lol
And dont get me wrong i support Brents work too. I just cant send him Ts from a particular group for ID because of the limited quanity. An it seems that noone seems to be able to understand that a max of 50 females and only 2 that i have confirmed as females is too few to be sending enough for ID purposes... I hope to be able to collect a few and CB some for species preservation. if that comes about then we shall see...
NOW that i have gotten off topic lol
 
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Drachenjager said:
When it comes to Texas tarantula species , ill holler at Dave ... no offense to Brent, but Dave has been studying the Ts in Texas specifically for a good while ...Brent will have his hands full studying all the alledged aphonopelma in the USA ...and i am sure when he gets done there will be quite a bit fewer species lol
And dont get me wrong i support Brents work too. I just cant send him Ts from a particular group for ID because of the limited quanity. An it seems that noone seems to be able to understand that a max of 50 females and only 2 that i have confirmed as females is too few to be sending enough for ID purposes... I hope to be able to collect a few and CB some for species preservation. if that comes about then we shall see...
NOW that i have gotten off topic lol
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And he thinks there are smithi natural living in TX?
 
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