New Aphonopelma Found!@! *PIC*

Brandon

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Hello all,
This past weekend I had another opportunity to collect tarantulas. I was in some of the hardest territory to find tarantulas, which is an area full of granite. The t's were scarce and after about 6 hours total collecting I turned up 3 including this T I have never seen before. It came from the lower desert which is usually full of A chalcodes, or A chalcode's look alike. After consulting a friend, and going through some taxonomy books it seems that this species doesn’t or hasn’t been describe before. Here is a pic let me know what you think.

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Joanie

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Sorry, I am no help.

Not a lot of distinguishing markings on that guy, are there?
 

Brandon

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Not really much markings at all, Actually in the right light she appears a dark copper colored green. Maby this pic shows it better.

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MrT

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Wow Brandon,
Cool looking Aphonopelma sp.
I've never seen one with that color carapace. It looks bronze.
Very nice. I'll buy one from you, ok.;)

Ernie
 

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Could this be the "Carlsbad Green" that was collected fairly heavily at last year's ATS conference? If it's not that, it's a YABAA (Yet Another Brown American Aphonopelma - inspired by mycologists common name LBM for Little Brown Mushroom for all those species of nigh indistinguishable features).
 

Brandon

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Defentally not a "Carlsbad Green" Never been there+ I cought this yesterday, so I guess it is just a YABAA. But then again, who knows?

Sincerely,

Brandon
 

Code Monkey

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Well, they're not necessarily restricted to Carlsbad, it was just that was where they were first collected, ergo the name. They're a brown/olive Aphonopelma species so I was tossing out a possibility. If there was actually any money in clearing up tarantula taxonomy, the American southwest could keep people rolling in dough for a couple of decades.
 

Brandon

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Code Monkey,
That is a possability thought I doubt it highly, their are many species of darker T's in AZ such as A behlei, A gabeli, and even some A henzi look alikes + many others. I hope that some one will some day get it all sorted out, but remember with 35+ species of tarantulas in AZ alone, not to mention many look alike it could take years to sort out. We can only wait out the long procces.

Sincerely,

Brandon
 
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