Freshly-Moulted Homeomma sp. "Blue"

[pitbulllady]

My female just moulted today, so I thought I'd take a pic while her colors were still really bright. She truelly rivals C. cyanopubescens for color, I think, in spite of her small size. I will post a link since I can't seem to get pics to show up.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/26705406/

pitbulllady

 

[harmroelf]

Very beautifull spider!!! I like it!

 

[hamfoto]

really wonderful colors!
Nice...

Chris

 

[surena]

Wow. Very nice colors.

 

[MindUtopia]

She looks great! It's wonderful to see one of these that actually looks blue! Congrats! :clap:

Karen

 

[Crimsonpanther]

Gorgous....
PURDY T you have there ....wow :drool:
What kind of camera you holdin ?

 

[Mattyb]

Very nice, she is lovely :clap:


-Matty

 

[cacoseraph]

and now, for the first time ever... i deeply regret trading my juv =P

 

[Steffen]

You have some great pictures on DA. Gave you a comment there too. Guess you have already seen my gallery.

 

[pitbulllady]

Gorgous....
PURDY T you have there ....wow :drool:
What kind of camera you holdin ?

It's a new camera I just splurged on, largely because it has a really good Macro feature. It's a Nikon Coolpix S4, with 6.2 megapixels. It's not a cheap camera, but the pictures it takes are really nice, and it shows colors much better than my HP camera. It can get within an inch of a subject in Macro mode, while my HP would not allow me to get any closer than four inches, and often not even that. The only thing I don't care for with this camera is that it does not have an anti-shake feature, which the HP does have, and Macro pics taken without the flash usually turn out blurry. The camera will let you know if a pic is blurred, though, so you have time to delete it.

For a good laugh, y'all should have seen some of the faces of the clerks at Best Buy, Radio Shack, Circuit City and other places where I went camera shopping, when I told them what the camera was to primarily be used for photographing! They all wanted to know why a really close Macro feature was so important to me, so I told 'em that I mainly wanted a camera for taking good close-up shots of tarantulas, LOL!

pitbulllady

 

[becca81]

Gorgeous! I have an immature male here (hint, hint... ), but the colors aren't nearly as vibrant, even just after a molt.

 

[GoTerps]

Gorgeous! I have an immature male here (hint, hint... ), but the colors aren't nearly as vibrant, even just after a molt.

That's because I think you have a different species Becca. This is the recurring case of calling 2 species by the same name.

The species in the photo here is likely the smaller sp. "blue"... which also has been called "Cobalt red rump", Thrixopelma cyaneum nomen nudum.

The larger species (which I believe is what you have Becca?) is what is more commonly being sold as Homeomma sp. "blue" and also as E. pulcherrimaklaasi... this is NOT what's in the picture here.

 

[pitbulllady]

Yep, I'm thinking that this might actually be a Thrixopelma that I have, due to the small size and now, the bright reddish abdomen, which was not as apparent in pre-moult. Her colors are simply amazing now, though an Avic of some sort that I bought last night closely rivals her in color and irridescence(see post under "Tarantula Questions"). I love these bright blue spiders!

pitbulllady

 

[becca81]

That's because I think you have a different species Becca. This is the recurring case of calling 2 species by the same name.

The species in the photo here is likely the smaller sp. "blue"... which also has been called "Cobalt red rump", Thrixopelma cyaneum nomen nudum.

The larger species (which I believe is what you have Becca?) is what is more commonly being sold as Homeomma sp. "blue" and also as E. pulcherrimaklaasi... this is NOT what's in the picture here.

Ah.. thank you. So is what she has the Hommeoma sp. "blue" "small" or a 3rd one?

 

[GoTerps]

So is what she has the Hommeoma sp. "blue" "small"

Yes, I believe so.