Catumiri argentinense

[BiologicalJewels]

Hello,

These beauties are growing well. All are fed on the same schedule and are given near equal proportions. They are all kept at the same temp and humidity is not measured but it is balanced by common sense.

I believe, without much foundation other than their relative size and body shape, that I have two males and two females.

here are some pics:

poss M1


poss F1


poss M2


poss F2


sizing poss M2


sizing exuvia M1


Their lairs (one missing )


I hope they'll keep on doing as well as they have so far and do hope to breed these as soon as the opportunity arises.

OR

 

[Moltar]

Nice lil guys. I'm not familiar with this species. Are they NW? OW? African? Asian?...

 

[LovePets]

Cute lil guys/and gals :razz:
They are NW species.

 

[BiologicalJewels]

NW and afaik lack urticating hairs...at least some in the genus do.
I've cared for these since they were no more than specs.

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[Moltar]

Oh, wait. (dons detective cap) "argentinense"... are these guys from Argentina?

 

[Ariel]

Are there any pictures of adult specimens?

 

[BiologicalJewels]

Oh, wait. (dons detective cap) "argentinense"... are these guys from Argentina?

and they grow to look like this:
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Catumiri+argentinense+Mello-Leito+1941-img1011.html

 

[Ariel]

Thanks for a pic, very neat looking species. About what size do they reach?

 

[Mack&Cass]

Our MM's legspan is about that of a quarter, give or take. Ours is suspected to be argentinensis.

 

[BiologicalJewels]

hello,

females reach ~1" (28 mm) BL, adult males are smaller and reach ~15 mm BL in size.

 

[Noexcuse4you]

Nice! I had 4 of them and they all died in like .2 seconds after I got 'em. I just can't keep tiny things alive.

 

[BiologicalJewels]

hello Kyle,

these are from the same group you got.

 

[Noexcuse4you]

hello Kyle,

these are from the same group you got.

I hate you.

 

[bliss]

hello Kyle,

these are from the same group you got.

I hate you.

did these come from Eric? just wondering.

 

[BiologicalJewels]

from Eric indeed.
Kyle, I love you, specially when you fail so badly

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[GoTerps]

Glad to see some of my babies doing well.

All of the ones in the US should be from a few different breedings of mine over the past few years. Being a small, brown species, I'm just glad to have others taking an interest in them. Hopefully someone else will start breeding them

Despite being small brown fellas, they are quite rewarding to keep. The mating behavior is very interesting (often flipping upside down) and the unique eggsac construction is really cool to watch.

Eric

 

[BiologicalJewels]

the "volcano" sac really caught my attention. These little buggers are giants by other measures in my opinion, their behavior is super cool, their tunnel webs are wicked and I can't wait to get to breed them.

 

[Mack&Cass]

Are there any pictures of adult specimens?

Here's a picture of our MM (his name is Bruce Willis), we got him as a 1/6" freebie back in April and he matured at the end of September out of nowhere. He's being given to Tarantula Canada this weekend so he can make little babies, due to their lack of popularity in Canada, they're usually sent as freebies, so we're not doing a 50/50, we're just trading him for an S. calceatum sling.

They grow incredibly fast. We believe our other one is penultimate. Didn't want to hijack your thread, just thought I'd post a picture of our guy so people could see what an adult looked like. For size reference, his water dish is right beside him which is a regular pop bottle lid. This guy was our first dwarf and before then, I wasn't a big fan of dwarves, but now we've got quite a few. Great species for sure.

Cass

 

[Teal]

Too cute! Dwarf species are so neat

 

[tarcan]

and they grow to look like this:
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Catumiri+argentinense+Mello-Leito+1941-img1011.html

Balam,

what you link to is not what we have as C.argentinensis, it seems to be one of the many Acantognathus spp. being sold out of Chile (or what they sell as such).

What we have in the hobby will look like this as a grown female

I am glad we are like 4 or 5 people on the planet having interest in these! LOL I really enjoy that species, they are really gorgeous despite what people may say. They are ravanous eaters, very easy to care for and their reproduction is very interesting.

Martin