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Hey All,
My wife and I spent the weekend in Washington, DC, and one of our stops was the American Museum of Natural History. We have a great NH museum in Chicago, so we were really only going there to see the Hope Diamond and leave... however, once I saw the "bug" exhibit, I had to go.
Anyway, the exhibit area was nice enough... they had a centipede, tarantula, and an AGB milli on display. However, the tarantula was labeled as "Mexican Orange-Kneed Tarantula (Euthalus smithii)", and the centipede, a GORGEOUS banded morph Scolopendra heros arizonensis, wasn't labeled at all.
Anyway, I was under the impression that the genus for smithi had been revised some 17 years ago... is it possible that they've simply had this specimen that long and never updated the labeling?? Seems odd that a museum would be this far behind the times...
My wife and I spent the weekend in Washington, DC, and one of our stops was the American Museum of Natural History. We have a great NH museum in Chicago, so we were really only going there to see the Hope Diamond and leave... however, once I saw the "bug" exhibit, I had to go.
Anyway, the exhibit area was nice enough... they had a centipede, tarantula, and an AGB milli on display. However, the tarantula was labeled as "Mexican Orange-Kneed Tarantula (Euthalus smithii)", and the centipede, a GORGEOUS banded morph Scolopendra heros arizonensis, wasn't labeled at all.
Anyway, I was under the impression that the genus for smithi had been revised some 17 years ago... is it possible that they've simply had this specimen that long and never updated the labeling?? Seems odd that a museum would be this far behind the times...