newest additions

[Gesticulator]

I have just added these two true spiders to my collection.

 

[jarrell]

nice pics, and beautiful spiders. what are they species?

 

[ShadowBlade]

Okay, I'm going to assume the bottom one is a Trapdoor spider? 'Cause it's not a purseweb...
The top one (the jumping spider) looks like Phidippus johnsoni. Just a guess...

 

[Scolopendra55]

Gorgeous trapdoor!!

 

[Gesticulator]

nice pics, and beautiful spiders. what are they species?

the black funnel web (not trapdoor) is Raveniola Sinsensis
and the jumper is indeed P johnsoni.

 

[MRL]

Great pictures Terri.

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

how do you know it´s a Raveniola sp. why not a Macrothele sp.? What makes you so sure about that?

 

[MRL]

how do you know it´s a Raveniola sp. why not a Macrothele sp.? What makes you so sure about that?

It was sold as Raveniola sinensis formerly Macrothele sinensis.

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/issues/48_1/rbz_48_1_abs.html

The species Macrothele sinensis Zhu et Mao, 1983, was transferred to the genus Raveniola by Song et al. (1999).

more info here:
http://www.tomhalvorsen.co.uk/info/blackfunnelweb.htm

 

[OldHag]

I just caught a jumper that looks like yours!! Ferocious beast!!

 

[beetleman]

i also just got 1 of those black funnelwebspiders what an awesome black demon it is! i love it!

 

[NotaSpider]

Thanks for the picks but aren’t trapdoors and funnel-webs classed as ‘primitives’ as apposed to ‘true spiders’?

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

correct,

they belong to the Mygalomorphae (=Orthognatha), like Theraphosids do, opposed to the Araneomorphae (true spiders)

greets
Bernhard