More Mexico Inverts...help with ID's?

Triprion

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Greetings everyone -
I ran through my photo batches and found a few other inverts from Mexico that I bothered to take the time to shoot...any help with ID's would be great!
1 - Here's a very common species of spider from the forests of southern Tamaulipas. It was found in TDF and Cloud forests; this one was outside the door of my hotel room.

Habitat outside the hotel


2 - Here are two species I found alongside Brachypelma smithi in the foothills of Guerrero. One is obviously a large roach (death's head?) and the other a really cool scorp...an ID on the scorp would be great...



3 - A Giant stick bug from the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca. This is the female; the male was much smaller and both were sleeping together on a large streamside vine...

Habitat


4 - A species of tiger moth...found a few pairs of these mating on a rainy day in San Luis Potosi:

This is the area where they were found:


One more to come...
 

Triprion

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Last but not least...

This big tarantula is common in isolated, high-elevation rocky areas of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. The elevation is around 10,000' and looks like this:

Any ideas?? This is one of the coolest T's I have ever found!
Tim
 

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Spider is Nephila sp.(probably clavipes). Last spider is an Argiope.
 

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Last but not least...

This big tarantula is common in isolated, high-elevation rocky areas of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. The elevation is around 10,000' and looks like this:
Any ideas?? This is one of the coolest T's I have ever found!
Tim
wow its so beautiful i would go there to just to see this T it reminds me of my B klassi lol
 
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scorpion pictured looks awfully like a Centruroides gracillis to me.. BEAUTIFUL photos though.. ah how I love the rain forests bountiful diversity, I would love to travel to such areas sometime SOON..
 

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Thank you for your post!

IMO, the tarantula looks like it could very well be one of the spiders considered forms of Brachypelma klaasi.

Like THIS ONE.

Just a thought, one which could be very wrong :)

Eric
 

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1st off Im green with envy, I cant wait to go, That stick bug OMG its huge,the scorpion looks like a C.gracillis to me as well , but I didnt think they were found in mexico, Thanks for all the killer pics..........Cheers:D
 

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Thank you all for your kind words and ID info! I have seen some amazing scorps down there, but rarely ever detain them long enough for photography. There is a very odd-looking, large black scorp I see every time I'm in the TDF of Tamaulipas, but for some dumb reason I never do take a photo. I will this year, I promise.
As for the unknown Tarantula: according to the pubs out there it can't be a Brachypelma. The only Atlantic side Brachy outside of the Yucatan is B. vagans, which is also in Tamaulipas (very common in the cloud forest habitat I photographed above). This species is only found on one mountain as far as I can tell, and it's habitat is much drier than that of B. vagans. It doesn't look like an Aphonopelma at all, which leaves Bonnetina; however, (I am no expert!) it doesn't look like any other members of that genus either.
Searching through the web for info on the distribution of the genus Brachypelma was VERY disappointing. The only paper I could find (Locht, Yanez & Vazquez 1999) has the most appauling range map I could imagine. It is very clear there is a lot to learn about Mexico's tarantulas, and if anyone plans to try and sort it all out I'd love to help!
 

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Tim,

Please contact me...I'm friends with Eric here in Dallas...and I would REALLY like to talk to you about that T from Nuevo Leon/Tamaulipas! And I know someone else (another T researcher) that would be interested in some info about that one! ;)
This is VERY Brachy-ish but WAY outside of the known range...but not completely bizarre if it has been isolated in high elevation...and it's not too far from a possible close relative!

Chris
 

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There is a group of "fuzzy-legged" Aphonopelma (or what's being called Aphonopelma right now) in Mexico as well.

Like THIS ONE

Eric
 

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wow awesome shots once again.i love seeing all these habitat photos!
that Aphonopelma(?) and the unknown scorp are both very nice :D
hope to travel there one day
 

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2 - Here are two species I found alongside Brachypelma smithi in the foothills of Guerrero. One is obviously a large roach (death's head?) and the other a really cool scorp...an ID on the scorp would be great...
You found Brachypelma smithi? Do you have pictures of it?
Love to see one in its habitat...

(Btw, that's a beautiful pic of what looks like that undiscribed Aphonopelma sp. )
 

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The scorpion is a Centruroides margaritatus.. you can Id this species by all the granulation on the carapace and tergites..
 

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Aphonopelma?
khm... not sure if it's related to this genus at all.
More like Brachypelma-ish to me but indeed some strange looking one.
 

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very nice pics tim. i need to try to go with you next time you head down that way. would be nice to go with someone who has experience down there.

im surprised that T is found at such high elevations! that is really cool. it explains the incredible hairy look and dark color to it.

how was the rest of your stay in AZ??
 
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