Genus Tapinauchenius

[Poeci]

juvenile Tapinauchenius gigas

 

[GoTerps]

T. plumipes eggsac

Tapinauchenius plumipes with eggsac

Eric

 

[GoTerps]

T. plumipes eggsac

Well, my second female T. plumipes has laid a sac (first can be seen in previous post)

I have a mated T. purpureus that will hopefully make an eggsac soon, fingers crossed.

If any one has T. cupreus or T. latipes males please let me know!!

Tapinauchenius plumipes with eggsac

Eric

 

[GoTerps]

T. purpureus eggsac

I just found my T. purpureus with an eggsac From the small female pictured on the previous page.

So that's 2 T. plumipes and 1 T. purpureus sacs I have cooking. Fingers crossed.

Tapinauchenius purpureus with eggsac

Eric

 

[diKe]

 

[kitty_b]

:drool:

i think i've got another genus to make shelf space for...

 

[GoTerps]

T. plumipes

Tapinauchenius plumipes babies

Eric

 

[Michael Jacobi]

Awesome! :clap: Those black abdomen nymphs are a trip [when we split, we split those too, right? ]

Fine work! Michael

 

[GoTerps]

Awesome! Those black abdomen nymphs are a trip [when we split, we split those too, right? ]

Sure Michael


Here's an eggsac I just opened today... looks great!

Tapinauchenius purpureus

Eric

 

[GoTerps]

T. elenae

Juvenile Tapinauchenius elenae

Eric

 

[GoTerps]

Eggsacs

Well, breeding Tapinauchenius has gone very well for me this year. I found 2 new eggsacs over past few days.

Tapinauchenius gigas w/ eggsac

Tapinauchenius plumipes w/ eggsac

Eric

 

[syndicate]

id say so man.congrats!u must hold the tap breeding record in the states!have these even been bred in the us before you?

 

[GoTerps]

id say so man.congrats!u must hold the tap breeding record in the states!have these even been bred in the us before you?

T. gigas and T. plumipes have, yes. But it's been quite a long time on the T. plumipes.

Some years back, T. plumipes used to be prevalent in the hobby as WC adults. I believe Sam Marshall had a good size breeding group at one time.

But, Tapinauchenius are not long-lived spiders... and need to be bred on a regular basis. And breed them young... by ~2.5" in DLS all the Taps are more than ready to breed... and you'll have better luck than with old females.

I just discovered another T. plumipes eggsac this morning, from a totally different bloodline than all the rest.

Eric

 

[GoTerps]

Tapinauchenius gigas with spiderlings.

Eric

 

[Philth]

Awesome work again Eric. It must be time consuming seperating that mess.:worship: Great pic. -Tom

 

[GoTerps]

Awesome work again Eric. It must be time consuming seperating that mess.

Thanks Tom,

It's interesting... after the spiderlings emerged from the eggsac (at 1st-instar) the mother basically webbed them into layers and then surrounded them again in webbing. Very cool to watch. There's about 215 slings webbed in there.

I know I'll never pull another Tap sac... much better results leaving them with mom.

Eric

 

[death66]

Very nice Terps! I really need to get some Taps, they are on the top of my list!

 

[james41777]

wow goterps that's a brilliant pic! the one with the slings and the mom together

 

[GoTerps]

Tapinauchenius plumipes with spiderlings

Eric

 

[cryosi]

Very nice pics, i got a T. purpureus about 3cm, looking forward to seeing him.her as an adult. looking for some more now to add to mine.