Some help needed

[smellyocheese]

I'm trying to figure out what these solifugids are. I've seen a couple of general caresheets for them but can it be applied to all 3 of them? if anyone has any tips or additional info on them, I'll be really grateful for them.

#1

#2

#3

and ID for this spidey too if possible

thanks!

 

[Steven Gielis]

#1: Rhagodes spec.
#2: Galeodes spec.
#3: Zeria spec.

All species are from Africa. Rhagodes is specialised in eating Messor ants in the wild. The other species are more general eaters. I had three Rhagodes spec. last year. I even had a succesfull mating, eggs and firsth instar larvae. I fed them with cockroaches (shelfordella tartara), two to three a week. Overfeeding can kill these animals. I keep all these animals at 30°C. They need a big layer of sand to digg a tunnel system. They drink droplets off water so it is handy to sprinkle in the morning. Unfortunantly the Ragodes isn't a longliving species. And normally doesn't live longer than a year. Zeria spec. and Galeodes spec. live longer. Buth it is possible they need a wintersleep depending on their origin. I know that the season of activity of Solifugae in Israel is just a month long! During the rest of the year they "overwinter" in their burrows.

 

[smellyocheese]

thanks so much for the info! it really helped!

 

[NotaSpider]

It's amazing! I think I know the genus of the 'spidey'.

It looks like a sparrasid of the genus 'Carparachne'.

These spiders are known to roll themselves up into a ball and tumble down the deserts of Africa. It may be hard to keep, I don't know.

 

[ftorres]

camel spiders

HEllo All,
Could the last camel spider be Metasolpuga picta?
I had a few of these about 40 that I got from an importer, and I have some still alive. I always had trouble feeding them, they were very shy and never seem to eat.
Any recomendation? Set up?
thanks
FT

 

[Steven Gielis]

Do you have pictures of the Metasolpuga picta? That species is from the Namid desert and rarely offered. Mayde you can discribe your setup so I can give some advice. The species on the picture is almost certain a Zeria spec. I had a specialist looking at it.

This is a interesting paper:
http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n3/JoA_v14_p363.pdf