Mystery pet shop spider?
Ben Thorne

Mystery pet shop spider?

Some kind of Theraphosa or Lasiodora? Maybe 3-4"
Does kind of resemble Hystericrates laticeps.
But something about it says “new world” to me. Maybe Acanthoscurria suina?
 
Does kind of resemble Hystericrates laticeps.
But something about it says “new world” to me. Maybe Acanthoscurria suina?
Looks NW to me too and 100% not a Theraphosa sp.
Needs a decent meal by the looks of it too.
If I may ask, what is giving you two the NW vibe (legitimate question as NW terrestrials are my Achilles heel)? I saw the coloration and the elongated abdomen, along with the description of "mystery pet shop T" (which is a good lean towards a species that is mass imported) and immediatly went to Hysterocrates ssp.
 
I can’t point to anything specifically. Just overall subtleties of shape and hair pattern
 
Same, despite looking slim like many OW, the satae are long and very NW like as is the general thickness of legs. There is also the knee markings where the hair does not appear as dense which is also more typical of NW rather than OW which are usually more consistent all round.
Just my observations and opinion, I may be wrong.

Edit. The pic is not very clear though and a better pic would help
 
Actually when I look closer at it, it looks NW to me also. You can see the urticating hairs on the abdomen. Hard to say with this one.
 
This doesn’t look new world to me. I’d have to agree that this looks very much like a Hystocrates sp. Can you get a better picture of the abdomen? Specifically the spot where there would be urticating setae? At least then we can narrow down to NW or OW
 

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