Photos of adult P.metallica and P.miranda here

[WYSIWYG]

Originally posted by dennie
Hm, that P. miranda looks fine, just like any other pokie, but not like a 150 dollar spider :? I guess I'm just blind, but I don't see anything of the purple thingies I have seen from other pics...

Dennis

I agree. It just looks like an ordinary pokey in that pix. It makes me wonder if it's mislabelled (wrong species/wrong sex) or if some people are having a little extra fun with photoshop on some of the more colorful critters.

Wysi

 

[Code Monkey]

No, they do look like that, but lighting and angle of viewing is everything. The bluest H. lividum looks blackish-brown looked at a certain way, and startling iridescent blue looked at another.