I bought this as P. sp. 'green'. Now he matured and I honestly can't see much, if any, green. It's not P. cancerides, at least not the normal form, since he looked completely different from cancerides as a juvenile. He still has a lighter carapace irl than cancerides and darker, less metallic legs.
I bought this as P. sp. 'green'. This is the juvenile coloring of the MM I posted. Is this...
This is the juvenile coloring and I think you can see green femurs, so is this supposed to be P. sp. 'green femur'? AKA 'South Hispaniola'? I'm thrown off by the lack of green in the MM.
@KezyGLA I'm going to make sure to get a molt from one of his sisters to compare the spermathecae. That's going to be a while, though, they already molted this year.
So, my conclusions after reading the whole Phormictopus article slowly and in detail:
1. This is most likely as @KezyGLA said P. sp. green (gold carapace). The long legged, slender build fits, too, only it doesn't have green legs, like it is supposed to have...
2. My P. platus really need a new label, they are P. auratus (I knew that before).
3. My P. cautus 'violet' is actually sp. 'Dominican purple' - very pretty purple.
4. I need P. sp. 'full green'! I wanted a green spider and I don't have one now .
I read an article yesterday on Theraphosidae.be that was talking about blue coloration in tarantulas. Apparently blue is among the most common coloration in tarantula genera and green is the rarest. Here's the link. It's a neat read. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1500709.full
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