Absolutely, what The Spider House said. Brachypelma is my business and TSH is very accomplished. If you have some photos of it from above so we can see legs and carapace that would be awesome.
⏫️ as above. The reason for an overhead shot for the carapace is that there will be a dark/black triangle at the front. One of the easy tells for Emilia.
The legs are also a solid colour on 2 of the leg joints after the knee (which is black). As the common names would suggest for B hamorii (Mexican Red knee) and B smithi (Giant Orange Knee) they do not have black knees at all and the leg joints appear "banded" with red/orange for hamorii and smithi.
If you look in the gallery section under Brachypelma there will be hundreds of pictures for hamorii, smithi, emilia and all the others that remain in the Brachypelma genus not yet mentioned (albiceps, auratum, baumgartni, boehmei, klaasi)
Hope that helps but as @YellowBrickRoad has said, we are both 100% certain you have a B emilia.....which arguably, many prefer to hamorii/smithi anyway mainly due to the characteristics she is displaying (triangle carapace and solid red leg colour)
you have a B emilia.....which arguably, many prefer to hamorii/smithi anyway mainly due to the characteristics she is displaying (triangle carapace and solid red leg colour)
Yup. Though its never nice to have something mis-sold to you (if that's what happened here), luckily all brachys are great looking spiders and b. emilia might be the greatest looking of the bunch (IMHO).
Yup. Though its never nice to have something mis-sold to you (if that's what happened here), luckily all brachys are great looking spiders and b. emilia might be the greatest looking of the bunch (IMHO).
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