blue lasiodora

[Dyon]

very very very nice T :}

 

[JOHN 3:16]

WOW! :clap: Could this be the next Holy Grail. I hope it breeds like a LP.

Mike

 

[Roski]

My heart just stopped.

Thank you so much for sharing!

 

[Bill S]

Enjoyed watching the video. Very cool. Reminded me of the time in high school (long ago) when we dyed my biology teacher's tropical fish to a bright orange/red. But I suspect the dye lasts longer on a tarantula, since it remains dry.

 

[endoflove]

my heart stoped for a bit lol but im wondering what dose nature have intended for a blue tarantula???? what evolutionary bennifit coud that bring waring a "im right here" tag???

 

[Kloster]

i hope she has 30000 babies like an LP.

 

[TalonAWD]

Just when I thought I could not want another T....I want one! WOW!

 

[burmish101]

Very awesome video, im not big on terestrials but these look so dang nice. Im not dissing my parahybana either i'm swimming in the things. ;P A dyed tarantula? Is it too hard to believe there can be a blue Lasiodora? Many different genera all over the world have species that are solid blue why is it so hard to believe? In the vid it has red hairs on the abdomen, quite stunning.

 

[Warren Bautista]

Wwowowowowoow!

 

[Bill S]

A dyed tarantula? Is it too hard to believe there can be a blue Lasiodora? Many different genera all over the world have species that are solid blue why is it so hard to believe?

When a known, respected breeder or collector steps forward with real information about this animal, then I'll be less skeptical. In the meantime I'll enjoy the entertainment but doubt the existence. I've known too many people in the past who have enjoyed "creating" non-existent animals as a joke on others to be completely gullible at this stage of my life. But who knows - maybe it's real and someone on this board will win one in a Nigerian lottery.

 

[Warren Bautista]

I think I can trust Galhardo.

 

[Bill S]

I think I can trust Galhardo.

I'll have to take your word on that. I don't know him or know anything about him. Still - information on how many of these are in captivity, where they came from, why nobody heard of them before, etc., would add credibility to the story.

 

[OldFlash]

Hi all, I´m Galhardo´s friend and also the hand in the video is our firend´s hand. Yep, i´m from Brazil too.

It´s funny to see that even with the video people still don´t believe it. When I first saw this species I couldn´t believe it either, until I got one as a gift, a stunning juvenile female. Thi spider is just blue with a reddish abdomem. Amazing species and the blue is always there, not just with the flash light. Until now nobody know if it is indeed a Lasiodora species. Some think it has some Acanthoscurria features, others said it could be Vitallius.

Until now we are calling it simply sp. Blue. Of course we are not professional arachnologists or even biologists. When I say "we" I´m referring to us hobbists. These spiders came from the south region of Minas Gerais state, southwest Brazil.

Here are some other pics from another friend. I know, the internet is full of photoshoped pics, but, hey, why would I lose my time creating a blue spider since I´m no seller, I don´t make money with it and I´m not interested in any kind of deal? If I didn´t have one individual myself I wouldn´t be wasting my time posting in this thread.

 

[wayne the pain]

So your breeding them? Sure people would like to know more about this :drool:

 

[Bill S]

Hi all, I´m Galhardo´s friend and also the hand in the video is our firend´s hand. Yep, i´m from Brazil too.

OK. More witnesses is a good thing. And the information you added is helpful. I'm not saying that it's impossible that such an animal exists, but when something seems too good to be true - it often is. There really could be some terminally ill person in Nigeria who needs to transfer $10 million to my account - but credibility needs to be established.

It´s funny to see that even with the video people still don´t believe it.

Videos can be faked in much the same way that PhotoShop can alter photos. Anyone with a reasonably good video-editing program can do it.

Here are some other pics from another friend. I know, the internet is full of photoshoped pics, but, hey, why would I lose my time creating a blue spider since I´m no seller, I don´t make money with it and I´m not interested in any kind of deal? If I didn´t have one individual myself I wouldn´t be wasting my time posting in this thread.

But people DO waste time PhotoShopping pictures. They do it for many reasons, including pulling practical jokes on other people. Back in the days before PhotoShop or digital images I was involved in "creating" a fake mountain king snake. It was part of a spoof lecture that was presented at a herpetological society meeting. We used infrared film, gelatin filters and some other technologies to produce high quality 35mm slides of a mountain kingsnake that was green, black and white. (Bright grass green) Three people claimed to have seen the species photographed, and we had good photos of several different specimens. People in the audience gasped and drooled over the "new species", and swallowed the story eagerly. But by the end of the lecture the presenters were laughing so hard that the audience finally figured out they were being put on.

So... in this age of Nigerian scams and internet hoaxes, when I see pictures being shown on an internet forum of a too-good-to-be-true new species with little or no supporting data to give it credibility - I smile and wait. Maybe it will turn out to be true. Or maybe we'll all have a good laugh afterwards.

 

[OldFlash]

Videos can be faked in much the same way that PhotoShop can alter photos. Anyone with a reasonably good video-editing program can do it.

True. I myself work with motion graphics and video editing. And by working with it everyday I know that the only reason a person would get to the point of faking a video like this, having to track colors with the original footage, masking every movement of the spider, etc.. would be to earn some money, or maybe to get some status, which means nothing. I know people do that, but, honestly, do that in a tarantula forum with so many well informed people is just stupid.

So... in this age of Nigerian scams and internet hoaxes, when I see pictures being shown on an internet forum of a too-good-to-be-true new species with little or no supporting data to give it credibility - I smile and wait. Maybe it will turn out to be true.

The reason for little or no supporting data is that there isn´t enough studies or projects going on with tarantulas as subjects in the world, as we all seem to agree. Imagine it now in Brazil, where we have laws that complicate things even to the one or two professional brazilian arachnologists. Brazil has serious problens with the HUGE burocracy we have here. For a professional arachnologist to collect species for resourches purposes, one need a series of permits that take 6 months to be validated. It´s so much work that serious people give up and go back to their labs. And I don´t see any of this changing in the near future. Unfortunatly you will have to believe in our brazilian word for a long time, or maybe not. Or maybe wait till someone here decides to go against the law and ship this species to other countries, one thing me or any other friend of mine is not willing to do. Unfortunately there are laws against it and nobody wants to go to jail.

All I know is that I´ve seen this animal with my own eyes, I have one gorgeous 3'' sp. blue female and a friend of mine (the one who owns the female in the pictures) has mated the species and, as you all see, she has already produced an egg sac. Let´s see what happens from now.

Or maybe we'll all have a good laugh afterwards.

After you get your hands on one of these, wich probably won´t take long, I bet you will.

 

[Arachnus]

hi everyone!

i´m also from Brazil, but i´m not here to be one more witness, i just need to say that this species isn´t a Lasiodora or Acanthoscurria, neither a Vitallius this beaultifull jewel belongs to the ancient genus: Cenobiopelma (Mello-Letão & Arlé,1934), and was discoverd recently here in Brazil inthe states of Minas Gerais and Goiás!

here´s part of the extensive documentation i had acess last night, but unfortunetally i don´t have a copy or the papers!

"A new species, is described from Brazil. Male can be
distinguished by the male palpal bulb lacking a small subapical keel on the embolus in conjunction with the embolus length (less than 2.5 times the tegulum length) and by the tibial spur being inserted in a perpendicular angle in relation to the tibia axis.
Female can be distinguished by the spermathecae being much more longer than wide, lacking lateral lobes and having a large terminal lobe with five smaller lobes around it. Additionally, males and females can be distinguished by the general blue metallic color pattern contrasting with the reddish setae on the abdomen...."​

Seeing this study and the video posted earlier, i have no doubt that this is a great looking blue terrestrial spider, despite the beaulty this species is also known to be medium sized adults, like Vitallius sp!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to get some slings of this beautiful child, and I'm really trying to be the owner of perhaps 5 or 10 of them, hopefully I can get my hands on them soon! because here in Brazil it is more difficult, because the laws are so blind and inefficient, and we simply can not reproduce this treasure in captivity and establish a good market and responsible!

if i had the honor to be gifted with some of this new generation i´ll be much happy to came over here and guarantee to you, that they are really as blue as it looks inthe video and pics!

But for me!....

It is that Blue!

Cheers

 

[Zoltan]

i´m also from Brazil, but i´m not here to be one more witness, i just need to say that this species isn´t a Lasiodora or Acanthoscurria, neither a Vitallius this beaultifull jewel belongs to the ancient genus: Cenobiopelma (Mello-Letão & Arlé,1934), and was discoverd recently here in Brazil inthe states of Minas Gerais and Goiás!

I suppose that means Cenobiopelma is going to be revalidated, right? Do you have any more information about the article such as:
What is its title?
Who's the author?
When and where is it going to be published?

Thanks and cheers for the post.

 

[JungleCage]

I dont have any article because its a new specie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6bdhHvV-M

guys... please dont PM me asking about selling anything, I dont sell spiders, I dont have any spider.

i didnt doubt that this sp existed. someone posted pics of this sp like 2 years ago and no one really replied to the thread thinking it was fake. well since then about 3 more threads have come up with pics. i knew it! and now thiers finally proof!

 

[JungleCage]

i dont really understand why ppl dont believe that a lasiodora or terrestrial could be so blue. even tho theres already GBBs, singapore blues, and many other super colorful Ts.