Sky Islands Aphonopelma

[advan]

Made a trip down to SE Arizona last October to find new species of Aphonopelma and help collect material for the description. Tom Patterson(@Philth) and I flew down to meet up with Michael Jacobi and eventually Dr. Brent Hendrixson and Dr. Chris Hamilton.



I found a mature male of our target species at a new location at about 8100ft elevation in the Chiricahua Mountains. We went back to the same location the next day and found adult females and juvies.

Adult male Aphonopelma sp. nov.

Adult female Aphonopelma sp. nov.

A different Adult female Aphonopelma sp. nov.

A few miles down the mountain road is where you can find Aphonopelma chiricahua. We searched the area for awhile but Brent came up with one juvenile male.

He's a happy camper. Haha

We made a trip over to the Dragoon Mountains. We were was successful in finding a some Aphonopelma that maybe a new species as well.

Juvenile

Adult female

We also found a few spiderlings with her.

For some more photos of the trip see here--->> https://www.flickr.com/photos/76845739@N03/albums/72157713753864057

And for a more detailed account of the trip check out Michael Jacobi's blog---->> https://www.mjacobi.com/blog/2019/1...antulas-autumn-2019-amp-a-november-in-willcox

Thanks for looking! -Chad

 

[Arthroverts]

Wow, just wow. That is truly amazing.

Thanks for sharing,

Arthroverts

 

[Smotzer]

This is incredible!! I appreciate your efforts to identify new species!! They are all gorgeous!!

 

[viper69]

So you are alive and still involved in Ts

Good to see!

I always knew Chris would get a faculty position.

 

[Arthroverts]

So you are alive and still involved in Ts

Good to see!

I always knew Chris would get a faculty position.

I was about to say, @advan, you are still around!

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[viper69]

Made a trip down to SE Arizona last October to find new species of Aphonopelma and help collect material for the description. Tom Patterson(@Philth) and I flew down to meet up with Michael Jacobi and eventually Dr. Brent Hendrixson and Dr. Chris Hamilton.



I found a mature male of our target species at a new location at about 8300ft elevation in the Chiricahua Mountains. We went back to the same location the next day and found adult females and juvies.

Adult male Aphonopelma sp. nov.

Adult female Aphonopelma sp. nov.

A different Adult female Aphonopelma sp. nov.

A few miles down the mountain road is were you can find Aphonopelma chiricahua. We searched the area for awhile but only came up with one juvenile male.

He's a happy camper. Haha

We made a trip over to the Dragoon Mountains. We were was successful in finding a some Aphonopelma that maybe a new species as well.

Juvenile

Adult female

We also found a few spiderlings with her.

For some more photos of the trip see here--->> https://www.flickr.com/photos/76845739@N03/albums/72157713753864057

And for Michael Jacobi's blog about the trip---->> https://www.mjacobi.com/blog/2019/1...antulas-autumn-2019-amp-a-november-in-willcox

Thanks for looking! -Chad

The elevation is quite impressive- be curious to know the average temps up there yearly. I read the blog post about the 50s temp.

 

[Colorado Ts]

That is such a cool story...thank you so much for sharing it and your images.

Made my day.