Mystery tarantula
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Mystery tarantula

Anyone have a guess what this T might be? Prefers to stay hidden, webs up the hide. Not as blue as the image looks irl. Very defensive and aggressive. I think it might be some sort of Cyriopagopus.

Edit. Better picture: https://arachnoboards.com/gallery/img_20230105_174756-jpg.86137/full
I'm pretty sure this has to be a hybrid , neither I or my friend recognize the species.

Abdomen of a P. irminia of some sort / Legs of C. vietnam blue.

Never seen any tarantula of this kind.
 
Can you get a better picture where the specimen isn't in a stress pose? To me it's looking like an Ornithoctonus sp.
 
Can you get a better picture where the specimen isn't in a stress pose? To me it's looking like an Ornithoctonus sp.
Unfortunately I won't be able to, this was the only picture I was able to take before it went back to hiding. I don't want to stress the poor thing out any more.
 
Hmm interesting.

Although the circumstances as in , neither the previous owner knew what it was and so on... makes you think how do you actually come across such a "rare" find if it's not something breed by some localist. Especially if it was some Ornithoctonus sp. like previously mentioned , and to not forget this is EU / Finland if i'm not mistaken. Cold temperatures / EU shops are Poland and UK... Usually hard to come across species like that and then as well with this pattern... who knows.

But yeah , I do wish to find out more what this could possibly be. Hopefully something new to learn. Keep us posted with any pictures :)
 
It´s more likely a kind of a abdominal pattern which occures sometimes spontaneous in Theraphosidae and have nothing to do with crossbreed.
So i´m afraid the pattern is not helpful for the identification.

Example 1

Example 2
That's actually very interesting. Do you know if that pattern change is present from 2i on or do some specimens just grow into it as they get adult coloration?

@Kamelerontti wait for the next moult. Preserve the skin, make a pic of the spermathecae and show it here.
That might be easier said then done if it's one of the fossorial species that likes to web their molts into the burrow walls. Best of luck OP lol.
 
Hmm interesting.

Although the circumstances as in , neither the previous owner knew what it was and so on... makes you think how do you actually come across such a "rare" find if it's not something breed by some localist. Especially if it was some Ornithoctonus sp. like previously mentioned , and to not forget this is EU / Finland if i'm not mistaken. Cold temperatures / EU shops are Poland and UK... Usually hard to come across species like that and then as well with this pattern... who knows.

But yeah , I do wish to find out more what this could possibly be. Hopefully something new to learn. Keep us posted with any pictures :)
Yes, I live in Finland and my friend got this one from quite a shady individual as they were apparently moving abroad and got rid of all of their animals before that. My friend's had had a lot of trouble because of that. I can't say that I know where this T was bought from, most likely the UK or Poland. I will try to take better pictures of it as I need to rehome it anyway.
 

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