It does have a partial resemblance to the fifth spider down but the legs on my spider are thinner and the claws on the end of the feet are much smaller and less bulky. The claws are more like those on the sixth spider. Though the sixth spider doesn't have much setae whereas mine has lots. Additionally, there looks like there's a bit of an attractive pattern on the fur on the carapace that I don't see on any of these spiders.
I should be able to post a photo tomorrow after I do some Raw processing.
This is actually the second escape Ive had. I did catch another one about a year ago which looked like the same species. And it was also found outside my bedroom door. I only had that one for one night. In the morning, I discovered that it had escaped. So for the more recent mygalomorph, I tried to make the container escape proof by placing camera equipment over the top. It looks like that wasn't sufficient.
It doesn't and they don't, but toss in a 3rd class lever operating a 1st class lever and maybe add an inclined plane and we will be talking some serious force. Animals are constantly amazing.
Those things wouldn’t ever escape any of my tanks . Haha
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Perhaps Teyloides bakeri? Males are a little more hirsute but they are the only thing I can think of with a notable marking on the carapace. According to ATLA they are definitely on the island as well
I was taking the length of the spinnerets into consideration when I was looking at your supplied pictures last night. My spider had very short / barely visible spinnerets. That's why I selected the fifth and sixth spiders due to their short, stumpy spinnerets (and other features.)
Oh I'm sure your enclosures are escape proof. The plastic containers that I placed these mygalomorphs in were only meant to be temporary. I was planning to transfer each one to a glass aquarium.Those things wouldn’t ever escape any of my tanks . Haha
Woah they sound like huge crab spiders. I thought they were generally tiny. Crab spiders must not be common where I am. I have only ever seen once and that was in the backyard. It was on a daisy and I saw it catch a tiny winged insect.
Only male Idiommata possess the silver colouration, and the silver is so pronounced even the dullest of males is 100% recognisable
Yea I gathered that from my brief online research.
Bary's are some of the most elusive mygs in any area, their burrows are often expertly camoflauged and some of the trickiest to spot. Not to mention some like Sason colemani are arboreal and almost invisible unless the tiny lid is lifted.
Oh yea coming across a trapdoor in the wild would be like mission impossible. My father did manage to find one on the family farm (elsewhere on the island) some years ago. Though the spider in that trapdoor didn't look like a mygalmomorph.
On Atlas Of Living, theres loads of myg sightings from a number of families across the whole island, including some lid building Idiopids like Idiosoma subtriste. There's definitely plenty to be found in the right spots.