Augacephalus breyeri

[Recife]

Doe anyone have one of these for sale,because I can't seem to find them anywhere. Please help me and could you tell me about this genus

 

[JakubV]

Hi,

I don´t think that A. breyeri is in the hobby although some German dealer offers it.

In the hobby are two other Augacephalus species. A. junodi and A. ezendami ( it was known as Ceratogyrus ezendami).
They are beautiful spiders.

 

[Recife]

Do you no where to buy one

 

[Peter Grabowitz]

Hi,

I don´t think that A. breyeri is in the hobby although some German dealer offers it.

In the hobby are two other Augacephalus species. A. junodi and A. ezendami ( it was known as Ceratogyrus ezendami).
They are beautiful spiders.

hello,

can anybody identify this tarantula, please?

 

[Philth]

hello,

can anybody identify this tarantula, please?

Does it have pale colored abdominal band over the book lung? Any ventral shots of it?


Later, Tom

 

[metallica]

does the fringe on the femur leg I not show enough?

 

[Comatose]

Doe anyone have one of these for sale,because I can't seem to find them anywhere. Please help me and could you tell me about this genus

The best way to locate any species for sale is to either A) search in the 'For Sale' subforum, or B) put a WTB in the same form. The latter may work best if you're serious about purchasing, particularly ultra rares like these.

hello,

can anybody identify this tarantula, please?


That seems to be the spider that comes up when I google Augacephalus breyeri; that obviously means very little though.

Does it have pale colored abdominal band over the book lung? Any ventral shots of it?


Later, Tom

does the fringe on the femur leg I not show enough?

Are these methods of ID'ing the species in question? This is the first I've heard of it, and I think I may be in love. It's stunning.

EDIT: Google turns up posts on this forum regarding this species dating back to 2003; I'm surprised it hasn't found it's way into the American hobby yet. Zero posts on the for sale forms, but two other species from the same genus have been offered in the past year.

 

[Philth]

I'm surprised it hasn't found it's way into the American hobby yet. Zero posts on the for sale forms, but two other species from the same genus have been offered in the past year.

Only a handful of A. junodi have made their way into the U.S. Hobby over the years. A little over a year ago a bunch of WC spiders were imported with the name Augacephalus sp. "Mozambique" witch were later re-described as Augacephalus ezendami. ( Turns out they were originally incorrectly classified as Ceratogyrus ezendami, but were switched over by Gallon in 2010) these were probably the "2" that you recently saw for sale.

Gallon, R. C. 2010. On some Southern African Harpactirinae, with notes on the eumenophorines Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885 and Monocentropella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc., 15 (2): 29-48.

This paper has a breakdown of the 3 Augacephalus, I'll email it to you when I get a chance.

Later, Tom

 

[Comatose]

Thanks for that dude... I'm reading it right now; incredibly fascinating.

Edit - I'm an idiot, read your post wrong. You're correct, those are the two species names I saw.

Edit #2 - Okay, and now to test what I've learned; according to Gallon, the prominence of stetae ventrally on the anterior pairs of femurs can differentiate A. breyeri and A. junodi, with the former having much thinner setae on the ventral sides of the femurs, and the latter having thicker setae on the same. Based on this, I'm going to venture a guess that what Peter has is A. junodi. I used Google images as controls to come up with that guess.

 

[JakubV]

hello,

can anybody identify this tarantula, please?

Hi,

show me the ventral side of the abdomen.

 

[Sebastian S.]

A. breyeri is in the hobby. Sometimes sold in Europe as junodi or ezendami. Identification Is not difficult.

PS: Not very good picture, identification from only ventral femoral fringes is not enough.