G. rosea or porteri?
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G. rosea or porteri?

Bought this ~4" female from a LPS simply labelled as a Rose Hair. It all seems pretty muddied to me, the difference between G porteri and G rosea, outside of color. Since this female seems to be noticeably pink, would that mean it'd be safe to say she's a rosea? Or can/do porteri retain color?
@Arachnophoric Jose is the expert, but there are a lot of similar undescribed Grammostola. Yours doesn't have a proper species description yet.

She's really pretty though and making me jealous :shy:
 
@Thistles Aaah, I see. Is there a thread somewhere that I could read up on this? It sounds really interesting :)

And thank you! I think she's really pretty too, when I saw her I just couldn't walk away without her!
 
literally just saw one today, 30 bucks, seeing yours makes me regret not getting it... ugh.
 
@Arachnophoric Probably, but I don't know it off the top of my head. Looking at Jose's post history would probably be the best place to start, or searching "northern type."
 

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