E. murinus (pics)

[rob]

Just sharing pics of my new skeleton tarantula. Its about 3" right now. Very skittish, but nice looking.

 

[rob]

One more pic:

 

[Sean]

Great pics man, those look like a pretty cool spiders

 

[vulpina]

Nice pics Rob. The Skeleton is on my list to be purchased, nice choice.

Andy

 

[pelo]

Ephebopus are one of my favorite species.Wait until it settles in.They make cool burrows and are great eaters..taking just about anything any size you throw at them.Very fast and a little on the skittish defensive side.A great species and a good looking species also.Enjoy your new spider...peace..

 

[nemesis6sic6]

hey

Great pics. murinus is nice.

I'm still waiting for my cyanognathus to grow up

but Ephobepus is a nice genus with some attitude.

their a unique genus that is overlooked sometimes.

Have a nice day

geo

 

[deifiler]

Nice pics, really distinct 'bones' () on your specimen too

Out of interest, have you experience the Urticating hairs from this species yet? I've had one for a few weeks now, and it hasn't unleashed any. I've read many accounts of them releasing them via rubbing the femur of the pedipalp against the chelicerae, as of yet I havn't seen it happen though.

It's strange, the arboreal appearance combined with burrowing tendancies...

Oh, don't you think "Murinus" ('Mouse coloured' I think) is under-ambitious for describing this species!?

 

[Venom]

Nice pics! Mine is about the same size, maybe 3.5 , but should be molting pretty soon now. I'll try to get some pix then. Ephebopus is probably my favourite genus.

 

[Henry Kane]

Originally posted by deifiler
Nice pics, really distinct 'bones' () on your specimen too

Out of interest, have you experience the Urticating hairs from this species yet? I've had one for a few weeks now, and it hasn't unleashed any. I've read many accounts of them releasing them via rubbing the femur of the pedipalp against the chelicerae, as of yet I havn't seen it happen though.

I was curious about that myself. I had a E. rufescens (who since molted out male...sent out...never heard from again ) that was very flighty but never deployed any urticating setae in defense. I actually never really tried to push it to that point but I always watched during routine maintenance just in case but to no avail.
Makes you wonder why Ephobopus evolved with the urticating setae right next to the fangs? :?

Atrax

 

[Venom]

Mine did urticate at me once, when it was about 2". It used a flicking motion, rapidly scraping its pedipalps againts its chelicera. I didn't catch any of the hairs however, so I don't know how potent they would have been. Nowadays she just bites.... a lot.

 

[rosehaired1979]

Cool pics