Haplopelma ID?

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That should be plenty clear enough.
Isn't this whole genus recategorized into cyriopagopus? Or just a few of the species?
It is, I just still refer to it as Haplopelma because I am a cranky person who does not react well to pointless revisions.
 

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You need to go with what Volker von Wirth says. As it has already been mentioned, the key diagnostic character for Haplopelma (=Cyriopagopus) longipes is the longer leg 4 compared to leg 1 as well as a brush of setae appearing on the metatarsus and tarsus on leg 4. From your pictures, and as you noticed, leg 1 and 4 are about equal length and there is no brush of setae on the metatarsus and tarsus of leg 4. This eliminates H. longipes from the possible species. I've noticed that these two species get confused because not everyone has seen both H. vonwirti and H. longipes side-by-side and tend to look too hard for the longer leg 4 with brush of setae. You'll notice it when you see it. To me, H. longipes resembles H. lividum more than any other species which your spider clearly does not.

Spermatheca will not tell you anything except that it is from the minax group of Haplopelma (the other group being schmidti). The minax group has a broadly fused spermatheca without a distinct notch where-as the schmidti group does. Shape of the spermatheca is not a specific character, but a generic one for Haplopelma (=Cyriopagopus).
 
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