tom12

T. "burgundy" n'a pas de cheveux longue sur le patella. si tu vu a la photo's dans ma première réponse ( http://www.vogelspinnenforum.nl/index.php?topic=8141.0 ) la différence est claire

non. il y a des différences entre le T. blondi et le T. "burgundy". mais beaucoup de vendeurs vends leurs bêtes comme T. blondi (même quand ils connaissent ca n'est pas le "vrais" T. blondi) a hamm j'ai vu un vendeur qui a seulement de T."burgundy" sur son table. mais il a écrit a quelqu'un T. blondi, des autres T. "burgundy", et la reste T. "blondi/burgundy" et la prix etait différente...

oui et non... je m'excuse mais mon français est terrible. c'est pourqoui j'écrit en anglais, et Miss Pulchra va traduire quand elle trouve le temps... mais le T. blondi et le T. "burgundy" sont 2 espèces différente, ne pas des hybrides. c'est impossible parce que les régions ou elle vivent, sont séparée par des montagnes. et parce que les T. "burgundy" sont importées de la nature, c'est ainsi impossible d'etre un hybride crée d'hommes... il y a des vendeurs qui vendu le T. "burgundy" sous 3 differente noms (T.blondi, T. "burgundy", T. "blondi/burgundy") j'espère que vous avez compris tout

nobody knew or was sure it was a new species. a big, brown spider from guyana that looks almost identical to T. blondi, they started to notice it had to be a different species because the offspring of wildcaught spiders had colored tarsus like T. apophysis, or it could be a natural crossbreed. but since that is out of the question it probably is a 3rd Theraphosa sp. and because it looks a lot like T. blondi, and considering "everybody" wants a T. blondi... it was (and still is) much easier to sell this spider as T. blondi instead of Theraphosa sp. "burgundy". (i've seen sellers in hamm, with 3 kinds of name for the same spider on the same table... just a cheap trick to sell more )

if i understand correctly you think that T. "burgundy" is a hybrid? if i'm not mistaken it's "impossible" to be a natural hybrid because T. blondi and T. apophysis habitat is divided by a natural border (a mountain range?) and it can't be a "man-made-hybrid" because of all the wildcaught imports. the name "burgundy" was given by some people because of the color. (and we all know that color don't mean sh*t ) i made a topic on this species on a dutch forum, i will place the link, and maybe Miss Pulchra can translate the most important parts? http://www.vogelspinnenforum.nl/index.php?topic=8141.0

i had an eggsac last year, but it was a failure... but have some mated females again, so lets hope for the best

price of M. balfouri is dropping quite a bit so... maybe you can have some in the not so distant future

definately hybrid impossible to tell what kind. could also be crossed with emilia...

if i'm not mistaken, he already has spiderlings of this eggsac btw: congratulations patotxiki and good luck with al your other spiders

@ guy-be: thanks for the info good to know this.... most people use instead of highland/lowland --> > subfusca/bara. but i'm not sure if it's scientific proven yet now if i only had the chance to see this for myself in my females...

@ guy-be: your english is more than good enough for me i didn't know that there was a difference from ventral view. if i have the chance to check this myself i will... but most off the time the spiders hide in their piece of cork, and i don't want to disturb to much... but as soon as i know (or seen) more, i'll put it here

i'm not sure if there is a color difference from ventral view. the difference in white (or not) patella is from top view. not sure from what stage, but i've noticed it with my bigger juveniles...

maybe to be more clear when they are adult males: they don't have the white on the patella but the difference between highland and lowland is in sub-adult stage (or even big juvenile stage). highland: males-> never white patella, they stay greyish with "stripes" in it, females -> develop the white patella from juvenile stage lowland: males -> develop the white patella (just as the females), but only untill adult molt. then they have their complet colourchange... (it would be a lot easier to explain if i was an expert in your language )

i think so

hey seth the 3rd picture: is it sub-adult stage? or did he molt numerous time before becoming adult? if it was sub-adult, then i also think it's a "highland" if the picture is from juvenile stage: it could be "lowland" from what i have seen here in males: highland: they don't develop the "white" on the patella lowland: they do develop the "white" on the patella i hope this makes sence to you if not i'll try to explain myself better