Genus Cyriopagopus (a.k.a. Haplopelma)

[kennfreeloader]

looks like a pretty badly scraped up longipes to me

 

[phormingochilus]

New Cyriopagopus species from Borneo

Enjoy ;-)



Spiderlings of this species will be available for the Stuttgart Show in the fall ;-)

Regards
Søren

 

[Tescos]

that looks quite an interesting one Soren. What do the males look like? are they the usaul greenish things or more orangeish like the males from the Borneo sp. I have?
Just thought looking at it again it looks very much like the one Alvin brought over to the BTS in 2004. Really nice dark carapace.
Cheers
Chris

BTW. From the ones I have you have a couple of females and males sorted ok.

 

[phormingochilus]

The males are the typical green males ;-) Females are jet black - the faint metallic lustre only comes out with flash ;-) This species is definetly unrelated to the blue in Singapore ;-) The locality is simply too remote to make any direct relation possible ;-)

Here are some more pictures of this new species ;-):

And yes - they are as big as as Cyriopagopus usually are ;-)

Sounds good with the tan species ;-)

Regards
Søren

that looks quite an interesting one Soren. What do the males look like? are they the usaul greenish things or more orangeish like the males from the Borneo sp. I have?
Just thought looking at it again it looks very much like the one Alvin brought over to the BTS in 2004. Really nice dark carapace.
Cheers
Chris

BTW. From the ones I have you have a couple of females and males sorted ok.

 

[syndicate]

those are very impressive.are they aboreal or semi-aboreal like some of the other sp?

 

[phormingochilus]

Strictly arboreal just like all the other Cyriopagopus species ;-)

Regards
Søren

those are very impressive.are they aboreal or semi-aboreal like some of the other sp?

 

[Steve Nunn]

Any chance of being a cf. thorelli??

Steve

 

[phormingochilus]

Hi Steve ;-)

Definetly not. The cf. thorelli that RW displays on his site was caught in western P. Malaysia, and from the exuvia I examined I have a strong suspicion that it may be a dark colour form of C. schioedtei, as the collecting site in more or less right in the middle of the spread range of C. schioedtei, and the morphological characters only differs on one point, which I am quite sure is only due to the huge size of the specimen, as the character in question seem to be present only in very large ornithoctonine specimens. Also the type locality of the real C. thorelli is much more north, and the male is described as being black with red hairs, which might suggest that it could actually be another genus alltogether as all known Cyriopagopus males are being tan to grass green in colouration. This species is from Borneo, and displays a lilac metallic lustre only when photographed with flash, whereas the cf. thorelli is dark mossy green when photographed with flash. All to do with colours, and maybe not so valid in true taxonomy, but combined with the other data, quite suggestive. Finally this new species is collected from a locality that more or less eliminates the possibility of this species having any direct relation to any of the P. malaysian species.

Regards
Søren

Any chance of being a cf. thorelli??

Steve

 

[Steve Nunn]

Very nice!! This is a beautiful species my friend!! Many congrats on introducing these, I really hope you can set up stable breeding populations of these, I like the robust build!!!

Steve

 

[kennfreeloader]

hey hey hey, this is good news for all of us!!

 

[Anomalia]

My Haplopelma

Haplopelma lividum adult female

http://www.anomalia.estranky.cz/fotoalbum/haplopelma/haplopelma-lividum/original/45

Haplopelma albostriatum adult female

http://www.anomalia.estranky.cz/fot...striatum-__nemecka_-vetsi-forma__/original/26

 

[Camberwell]

Welcome Anomalia,

great photos, I like that albostriatum, very nice

Camberwell

 

[bagheera]

And this one is a wild caught, that allegedly came from "an island off of Singapore". Or so says my Asian source! In daylight she is more purple than blue. Between 8" and 9" . I amazed at how tractable these Asians are.

 

[Steve Nunn]

Hi,
That above one is beautiful, but clearly within the singablue "plastic hobby complex", compare the front tibia to Sören's pics, much thinner and longer then Sören's.

Gorgeous spider, love the singablues

Steve

 

[Goliath]

Here is one of my girls.
mike

 

[bagheera]

Hi,
That above one is beautiful, but clearly within the singablue "plastic hobby complex", compare the front tibia to Sören's pics, much thinner and longer then Sören's.

Gorgeous spider, love the singablues

Steve

Steve

Can you explain your comment, for a "layman"?
"plastic hobby complex"???
:? :?

 

[aerodyke]

Haplopelma albostriatum is the scientific name I got when I purchased mine..I got it as a thai tiger and with a little more research discovered it was a thai zebra not a thai tiger...mine look just like that one..and he's pretty aggressive..how about yours?

 

[FryLock]

I think Steve's "plastic hobby complex" comment refers to .Sp "Blue" .Sp "Blue II" ect i.e. artificial hobby separation of the mainland and island geographic forms of the same species.

 

[Steve Nunn]

Spot on Bill

Steve

 

[David_F]

Recently molted spec. "blue"

It molted last weekend so thought I'd see if I could get an idea of it's sex. The exuvia was too torn up to check so maybe these pics will help? The spider is about 2.75". It does show a bit of blue when I use flash but I didn't use flash for this pic. Sorry for the handling pic...it wouldn't sit still anywhere else.

This one was taken before the molt. This is the first Cyriopagopus sp. I've had so I'm not confident with my ventral sexing attempt.

Should this be here or in the announcements forum?