My Australian non-T primitives

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Arbanitis sp. Orange, an unique lid building species with a very stocky build to assist it in burrowing through tough clay.


Arbanitis sp. Barrington Tops 1. Bizarre opalescent colouration on the abdomen when under light and one of the weirdest lids I've seen from any trapdoor make this a quite interesting new species to the hobby.


Chenistonia sp. Orange


Paraembolides tubrabucca


Arbanitis sp. Barrington Tops 2


Arbanitis sp. Barrington Tops 3, another one with a funky drawbridge style lid.


Arbanitis sp. Barrington Tops 4, the most Southern tube building Arbanitis I'm currently aware of.


Arbanitis sp. Coramba 3. The third species I've personally found in this area, distinguished by its regular open hole burrow and unusually long cephalothorax hairs.


Arbanitis sp. Grafton gold, the species that started it all.

 

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Arbanitis robertsi, a tube builder

Euoplos cf. variabilis


Blakistonia sp. ravioli, named for the unique lids they build in the wild. So far, nobody has successfully got them to recreate such lids in a captive setting, although I have to some degree.


Blakistonia sp. Flinders Ranges 1, also what i call "semicircular tube trapdoors". The unique burrow is a tube, either horizontal on the underside of overhanging wood on a slope or vertically against the side of a rock. The entrance to the burrow is adorned by a massive semicircular fringe of mud around the lid, which is also semicircular in shape.


Cataxia sp.


Anamidae sp. Crawford forest 1. Possibly Teyl sp.


Trittame cf. rainbowi


Cryptoforis hughesae


Namea sp. Toowoomba


Finally, after 3 years, a second Idiommata sp. silverback

 

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Aname sp. Crawford forest


Blakistonia sp. 1


Stanwellia sp. Bago


Blakistonia sp. leaf lid


Australothele nambucca


Hexathelidae sp. Coramba 2, no longer mine but a cool little species.

 

[The Snark]

Great pictures!
I notice they all have the same basic eye configuration and size. Little more than motion detectors. It's so typical of Australian fauna and their ancient evolution, adapting the animals to 'only as required;, dictated by the environment. Little or none sporting or experimentation as often seen in younger species. From what I've seen of Aus. only the outback from Darwin to Brisbane, the entire area speaks 'old'. Out in the Kakadu and Arnhelmland you can feel the antiquity. Up in your face 'this is one very ancient land, unchanging for many eons'.

 

[scolopendra277]

Beautiful spiders! I'm thinking of getting one of these, how hard are these species to keep?

 

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Beautiful spiders! I'm thinking of getting one of these, how hard are these species to keep?

That thoroughly depends on whether you want to keep Actinopodidae, Atracidae, Anamidae, Barychelidae, Euagridae, Idiopidae, Hexathelidae, Microstigmatidae, Pycnothelidae or the other obscure families. To begin with, open hole Arbanitis and Stanwellia are IME both the easiest and among the best looking species we have in the entire country.

Arbanitis is also great because the genus has unbelievable variety and species groups for all levels of experience. You can start with easy ones and even as an advanced keeper still try out ones that need very specific and tricky habitats

 

[scolopendra277]

That thoroughly depends on whether you want to keep Actinopodidae, Atracidae, Anamidae, Barychelidae, Euagridae, Idiopidae, Hexathelidae, Microstigmatidae, Pycnothelidae or the other obscure families. To begin with, open hole Arbanitis and Stanwellia are IME both the easiest and among the best looking species we have in the entire country.

Arbanitis is also great because the genus has unbelievable variety and species groups for all levels of experience. You can start with easy ones and even as an advanced keeper still try out ones that need very specific and tricky habitats

I was going to try an Arbanitis gold coast, how hard are those to keep?

 

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I was going to try an Arbanitis gold coast, how hard are those to keep?

Don't have those ones personally but I'm guessing they are a standard open hole species. Arbanitis are very hardy and its very difficult to kill them unless deliberately. You're best off using wild substrate but a peat moss and sand mix will suffice

 

[scolopendra277]

Don't have those ones personally but I'm guessing they are a standard open hole species. Arbanitis are very hardy and its very difficult to kill them unless deliberately. You're best off using wild substrate but a peat moss and sand mix will suffice

Thank you! I'll try that.

 

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Namea cf. dahmsi, mother and slings



Hadronyche marracoonda sling


Teyloides sp. sling


Proshermacha sp. sling


Cataxia sp. (possibly pulleinei


Stanwellia sp. Hall's Gap 1, male and female. One of the only trapdoor species I truly count as a dwarf.



Arbanitis sp. Coramba 2, a drawbridge species I found a few years ago. This is the first adult specimen I've seen.


Aname sp. NSW mallee

 

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Teranodes sp.


Hadronyche sp. Tamborine 2, undescribed tree dweller.


Seqocrypta jakara


Euoplos grandis


Arbanitis sp. Montville, male and female.



Euoplos turrificus. This one turned out to be a penultimate male that matured on Tuesday.


Anamidae sp., possible Proshermacha.


Aname comosa


Kiama lachrymoides

 

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Euoplos regalis, the largest trapdoor for overall size and mass I own at just shy of 4" DLS


Cataxia sp. from near me.


Euoplos sp. Flinders Ranges


Chenistonia sp. Barrington Tops


Arbanitis sp. Nowra


Arbanitis sp. Coramba 1, a tube builder.


Namea sp. Tamborine 2


Stanwellia sp. from about 2 hours away.


Hadronyche nimoola, the real one deal this time.


Arbanitis sp. Gundagai

 

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Arbanitis sp. Cumberland Plains


Blakistonia sp. Flinders Ranges 1, semicircular tube.


Bymainiella lugubris


Sason colemani, adult female.


Arbanitis sp. Tamborine 3, drawbridge type.



Arbanitis sp. Tamborine 1, also nicknamed "goliath" due to being one of the largest species in the genus with both females and males consistently reaching over 3" DLS.


Arbanitis papillosus, sandpaper tube trapdoor. The species possesses unusual bumpy tubercles covering the entire abdomen.

 

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Chenistonia sp. WA 1



Idiosoma sp. WA 1



Seqocrypta jakara


Aname sp. red, unfortunately with an impaction. Regrettably, not really sure how to help her either.


Euoplos regalis

 

[NaychaBoi]

That Arbanitis you found in Wooli is incredible. I spent most of my life living in Grafton so I’ve spent a great deal of time in Wooli, Glenreagh, all along the beaches and inland too. While I was down there I was mainly into reptiles and kept some local wolf spiders and Lychas scorpions

 

[8 legged]

Write a book! I will preorder!

 

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Write a book! I will preorder!

It's been so long since I undated this that I almost forgot about it! Can't promise a book but I'll do my best haha

 

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Proshermacha sp. Denmark (not the country), adult possibly gravid female.


Teyl luculentus


Synothele sp. Carmel


Cethegus fugax, likely gravid female


Idiommata sp. silverback


Proshermacha sp. Mt Bryan


Trittame cf. rainbowi


Hadronyche sp. Batemans Bay


Synothele lowei


Teyloides bakeri

 

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Euoplos grandis (no longer mine, sold)


Proshermacha sp. Adelaide Hills


Xamiatus rubifrons


Euoplos thynnearum, possibly the only specimen in the entire hobby. Builds an unusual lid with a thick lip around the edge.


Arbanitis sp. Coramba 1 "tube"


Namirea sp. Flinders Ranges


Bymainiella cf. polesoni


Stanwellia sp. Newcastle


Australothele nambucca


Arbanitis sp. Bellthorpe "tube"