Avicularia purpurea?

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  cold blood

• May 21, 2023

you need to use a light...pics waaaaaaaaay too dark.

 

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  Ronts

• May 21, 2023

Avicularia purpurea/merianae

• Ronts
• May 20, 2023
• 13

 

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  cold blood

• May 21, 2023

not purpurea...looks more like a juronesis....not sure which morphotype, but it looks a lot like the species formerly known as ulrichea

@CEC, @viper69

 

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  viper69

• May 21, 2023

Definitely not purpurea. CEC will know, he's owned more than me. Hard to tell for me in that light, the colors are washed out.

I've owned merianae, and it doesn't resemble them either, but I have less experience with them.

 

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  NMTs

• May 21, 2023

I agree with @cold blood that it looks like juruensis, but mine is only a juvenile now and I've not had an adult. Some pics that @CEC has posted of A. juruensis look pretty similar to yours, IMO...

Avicularia juruensis morphotype (#1?)

Adult Female Ex. urticans (hobby)

arachnoboards.com

 

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  Isaax Critterz

• May 22, 2023

Def a juruensis.

 

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  CEC

• May 22, 2023

I have to disagree here, it's a purpurea... The lighting and greenish color is misleading... An easy way to tell these two species apart in pictures is the tarsi color pattern (most often used to identify the mature males).
Avicularia juruensis of have the classic pink toes Avics are known for, whereas, purpurea do not...

 

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  CEC

• May 22, 2023

Avicularia purpurea (Northern Type)

• CEC
• Mar 21, 2017
• 2

Adult Female

Avicularia juruensis M#1

• CEC
• Apr 17, 2019
• 1
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Adult Female
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Avicularia juruensis

• CEC
• Apr 26, 2017

Mature Male
(Hobby ulrichea)

 

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  cold blood

• May 23, 2023

CEC said:

he lighting and greenish color is misleading

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very misleading...got me...that's why I appealed to a higher power...lol.

Thanks a bunch for the info...I was certain it was the hobby ulrichea based on that carapace....never even looked at the toes...haha

your purpurea is labeled northern type...can I assume there is a southern as well? And how would they be distinguished.

 

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  CEC

• May 23, 2023

cold blood said:

very misleading...got me...that's why I appealed to a higher power...lol.

Thanks a bunch for the info...I was certain it was the hobby ulrichea based on that carapace....never even looked at the toes...haha

your purpurea is labeled northern type...can I assume there is a southern as well? And how would they be distinguished.

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Ryan explains here: https://arachnoboards.com/threads/avicularia-morphotype-identification.337729/