Amazon jungle trips, Brazil.

[AlanMM]

Some pictures of a couple of trips i did in the amazon jungle last month.

Habitat, rio negro.

Cayman.

Piranha fishing.

Tree frog

Tarantula...

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[AlanMM]

Anyone has an idea of the ID of the tarantula below, let me know.

Dipluridae sp.

A tarantula covered with some sort of fungus.

 

[AlanMM]

Lynx spider?

Little scolopendra sp.

Millipede sp.

 

[AlanMM]

Praying mantis.

Sand cricket.

Beetle.

Huge spider web, with communal spiders in it.

Detail:

 

[AlanMM]

Gecko.

Cayman.

Little one.

Tree frog:

 

[Fingolfin]

Nice pics! Thanks for posting those.

The tarantula looks really interesting, like a blondi with vagans hair! Pretty shallow little burrow its using too...

 

[beetleman]

:clap: yes! beautiful pics!!

 

[Bothrops]

Nice pics, man!

That tarantula looks really like a Megaphobema velvetosoma, but it couldn't be possible, because they are amazonian, but from Peru/Ecuador, not from Brazil as far as I know!

 

[EDED]

nice pics,

im jealous


i like that pic of that tarantula with fungus growing on top, looks like tree roots sprouting out. awesome!

 

[SRirish]

You got some nice pics there I wish i could go on a trip like that

as for the tarantula i wouldnt have an idea on what type it is. If I had to guess though i would say Lasiodora sp.(again that's just a somewhat unedjucated guess)

 

[glamiswarrior]

Amazing pictures!! That must have been a great trip! I wish I can go someday.

 

[tarsier]

Awesome pictures!!!

 

[AlanMM]

Thanks,

I thought it kinda looks like Grammostola iheringi, just a guess of course.
Other things i heard were Lasiodora sp. or Acanthoscurria sp. but all the specimens weren't that big as these should grow...
Somewhere like 15 to 17cm.

 

[Scourge]

Pamphobeteus sp. perhaps?

Mike

 

[cacoseraph]

hello. awesome awesome pictures


that centipede is a Geophilomorpha not Scolopendromorpha. the easiest diagnostic is that it has more than 23 ambulatory legpairs. that is one of the coolest looking geo's that i have ever seen or seen pictures of! i would love to have it as a pet. i just have a little (4"/10cm long and very narrow golden local California sp)

 

[AlanMM]

that centipede is a Geophilomorpha not Scolopendromorpha. the easiest diagnostic is that it has more than 23 ambulatory legpairs. that is one of the coolest looking geo's that i have ever seen or seen pictures of! i would love to have it as a pet. i just have a little (4"/10cm long and very narrow golden local California sp)

Does that also mean they are kind of a rare species?

I guess it was something about 10 cm long. And catching those bug looking things on the pic. There's another one sitting in the upper right corner of the picture.

If you want a bigger picture, let me know, that one is heavily resized.

 

[cacoseraph]

Does that also mean they are kind of a rare species?

I guess it was something about 10 cm long. And catching those bug looking things on the pic. There's another one sitting in the upper right corner of the picture.

If you want a bigger picture, let me know, that one is heavily resized.

i do not know very much at all about geophilomorpha

i do know that one looks very interesting

i would love a link to a bigger picture!

 

[GoTerps]

Great pics, thanks for sharing!

The overall habitus of the theraphosid pictured brings Megaphobema to my mind.

Megaphobema has a much stronger presence in Brazil that current literature will indicate. Lasiodora lakoi, described by Mello-Leitão in 1943, from Brazil is likely a Megaphobema. And there is at least 1 more undescribed Megaphobema from Brazil that's known.

Eric

 

[xenesthis]

Pamphobeteus sp.

I saw this species in the '98 and '99 imports from NE Peru. Only a handful came in. I keyed them out to be a Pamphobeteus sp. Not a Xenesthis and not a Megaphobema sp.

It might be a variation of P. nigricolor. It could be what Europeans have labeled Pamphobeteus sp. "backfire" and an undescribed Pamphobeteus sp. They were large, 6.5"-8", stocky and aggressive. They have a very long, bright red abdominal hairs.

Todd

*** Below are pics of the "backfires".

 

[GoTerps]

Hi Todd,

I saw this species in the '98 and '99 imports from NE Peru. Only a handful came in. I keyed them out to be a Pamphobeteus sp. Not a Xenesthis and not a Megaphobema sp.

What about the pictures seen in this thread allows you to "key them out" to be a Pamphobeteus ?

I just would like to know what specific characters you're looking at.... especially since these spiders weren't found in "NE Peru".

Eric