Haplopelma albostriatum adult size?

[JadeWilliamson]

There was a thread similar to this not long ago involving a person inquiring about his/her male H albostriatum coming to maturity at a very small size (2.5"?). I'm curious about the size of an adult female. How small is one when she hits maturity? How large is the biggest girl you've seen? Heard of?

Thanks everyone. Here's a picture. I touched it up with my amazing Paint skills so you can see where the ticks on the ruler are. The Gerber tool was the only thing I could find to use to measure her. I just rehoused her.

 

[spiderengineer]

That was my thread the rule of thumb for most species is around 4 inches is consider mature. However in that same thread I posted a link to another thread and if you read it through supposedly some one had a h. Albostriatum mature female at around 2 inches or so. Also interesting to note apparently the US has the smaller version of the H. Albostriatum. I would assume yours is mature because it look like mine before her las molt and size. what makes haploplema's great is that they are sexual dimorphic at maturity. so when I look at my little guy that day he just seem well male in color and in physical characters (his was leggy) so I did a little closer inspection i saw his embolus.

 

[Lopez]

You can breed albostriatum at 3" no problem. I have a 3" lividum on egg sac at the moment. The whole "maturity" thing in female spiders is a skewed concept anyway, when is a female spider "mature"? When it develops spermetheca? When it shows a visible uterus externus? When the spermetheca are scloterised? When it's fully grown?

 

[JadeWilliamson]

I've asked this question a dozen times and have never gotten a straight answer. I appreciate your insight, and it's interesting that you have H lividum that small on a sac.

You can breed albostriatum at 3" no problem. I have a 3" lividum on egg sac at the moment. The whole "maturity" thing in female spiders is a skewed concept anyway, when is a female spider "mature"? When it develops spermetheca? When it shows a visible uterus externus? When the spermetheca are scloterised? When it's fully grown?

 

[Lopez]

I've asked this question a dozen times and have never gotten a straight answer. I appreciate your insight, and it's interesting that you have H lividum that small on a sac.

Hi Jade.

The reason you never get a straight answer is...... we (I use the term loosely) can't really agree. You could argue the same for a woman, when is she really "mature", and the answer would have to be (in my mind) when she is capable of producing viable offspring. Others might disagree.

I'd take a picture of the lividum to demonstrate but she isn't really very visible at this stage. The egg sac is very small - maybe an inch across.