Species Dolichothele diamantinensis (a.k.a. Oligoxystre diamantinensis)

[VictorGhirotto]

Hey! check out a recently discovered tarantula species. It's brazilian. Cheers, Victor:

Juvenile:

Slings:

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i think juvenile one is female, and its almost maturing. hope one sling be a male

 

[Quixtar]

It's GBB Jr.

 

[VictorGhirotto]

thats better than a gbb, me thinky. xD

 

[jbm150]

I'm not sure how new the species is but this thread could use those pics. Gavin's posted some sling pics but no adults.....

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=42096

Beautiful T, similar to a GBB but a bit different. Know anything about their biology?

 

[VictorGhirotto]

They're first discovered in 2009. January, 2009, by Rogério Bertani, Thiago dos Santos and Alexandre Ferreira.

I think this can help a lot about their biology:
http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/83/61


They are small T's. if mine juvenile was a male, i think it would be matured. They build a lot of web, but are kinda terrestrial, build a ground parallel web tunnels. I can post a picture of their cage later. They eat a lot, are voracious spiders. They are VERY quickly, thats why i don't risky to handling mine =D .

Thanks,jbm, i will post the pics there too. =] Cheers!

 

[022]

I'm getting one of those this week! When it arrives I'll post some pics

 

[Zevian]

WOW! I love it! Just curious, do you know where on could acquire an O. diamantinensis? c:

 

[Storm76]

WOW! I love it! Just curious, do you know where on could acquire an O. diamantinensis? c:

Ken the Bug Guy sold some few last year, I think. Afaik these are becoming more readily available this year, I guess

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Ken the Bug Guy sold some few last year, I think. Afaik these are becoming more readily available this year, I guess

They haven't been sold in the states until just recently. Not sure who else got any, but I have a handful of them.

 

[dactylus]

They haven't been sold in the states until just recently. Not sure who else got any, but I have a handful of them.

^

I hope to pick up a few of these later this year...

 

[AMunchausen]

hi, does any one know of anyone selling these guys currently?

 

[ijmccollum]

Sorry, it looks just like my GBB except my GBB is prettier.

 

[oggy]

Old thread but i still want one. Haha

 

[awiec]

Old thread but i still want one. Haha

They're very expensive so get a GBB instead, they have the same colors just are bigger and cheaper.

 

[VictorGhirotto]

Hello guys. Im kinda late, but here's what happened:

The big one matured into a big female, and both slings grew up males. But there was an unlucky procces: First, male I mated with her ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3waRvL7F7A ), then i send it to another person. Then, she moulted without posting eggs, later then, when I join the male II to her, SHE KILLED THE MALE within seconds, and ate it.

Now, she's a big old lady, and im looking foward to find a new male to her. Here are some pictures:

She, with the dead male :

And she yesterday (26/07/2014) !!:

Thank you guys!

 

[Kumo Punch]

Sorry about the bad luck Victor. These are so nice. I need to get a few.

 

[Enn49]

I can't believe it's a month since I got this little one. It spends a lot of time up near the lid of the tub in the web it has made, in fact I'm thinking of rehoming it to a deeper tub once it has moulted. It eats like a piggy, quite an active little one and up until now seems very unconcerned about disturbances. Currently about 1/2 inch.

 

[Codyhc1]

This picture was taken April 2nd and then ~32 hours later moulted.


And the second picture was taken April 4th post molt.



And the third taken April 10th just before a feed.



I have 0.0.2 D. Diamantinensis and the other one moulted soon after but sadly hasnt been too photo friendly besides some stinker pictures here and there lol.

Hopefully this can show off a bit of this beauty both pre and post moult

 

[Chiefholpin]

Sucha beauty, post molt picture! Colors are absolutely fabulous, this is defiantly my favorite dwarf species!!!

 

[Chiefholpin]

NO FILTER USED, JUST LIGHTING!!