Caught this one around Phoenix, AZ. This pic is one day post molt and the colors are a lot more drastic than before molt. Can anyone confirm if it's A chalcodes?
North America has a vast area of landmass that is habitable to the few species of tarantula we have. The vastness of the habitable land mass accounts for a large variety of climates, which thanks to micro evolution "adaptation" we see variations in the same sp. from different regions.
@MrSmith86 I love your answer. When you think about species from other parts of the world, the area that they come from is often very small and wouldn't require the same extent of adaptations due to widely differing climates and living conditions.
Even one state that A. chalcodes comes from, and there are more than one, is bigger than entire countries where other tarantula species are found.
I'm sure that there are many more adaptations, within the Aphonopelma genus, in the U.S., that haven't even been seen yet and maybe never will. You could spend your entire life studying the species in the southern U.S. alone.
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