People can guess, and they will, but that is all it is... guessing. If it was labelled as an A. avic, then you probably will never know otherwise.
Unless you were planning on breeding, which wouldn't be a good idea unless you can trust the source, then it doesn't really matter that much. They're all kept the same way and they are all lovely.
@CyclingSam I wouldn't call those really white tipped. If you look on the back leg at the top - the hair is light coloured all the way down.
This is more along the lines of being white tipped. View media item 34947
Vanessa raises a good point. My A. metallica did not have white going down the length of the setae, just the tips. All the fresh molt pics I posted of mine didn't have red as this one does, and just the typical fiber optic setae found in A. metallica and some other species of Avics. Again, w/few exceptions, you can't ID Avics via pics.
Avicularia sp Guyana, also it can be one of those metallica and av. av. hybrids: they're really wide spread among american keepers, because there was no clear metallica males here. It should be noticed that all avicularia species from guyana have red abdominal hairs and white leg hairs. Av. av. and av. sp Guyana are almost the same tarantula with small red and white hair differences. True av. metallica is a full blue tarantula and has no red hairs at all. Carapace colors, that are almost azure or aquamarine, don't matter, but sometimes help to understand who were the parents: one species or two different.
@Cloud Chaser How do you know that hybrid is really widespread? Have you any scientific data to support this, or speculation based on anecdotal evidence?
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