Brazilian Giant Salmon Tarantula

The brazilian salmon pink can reach a leg span of 20-25 cm while the frame could be 9-10 cm long. Males have highly longer legs, but large girls can weight more than one hundred g. The colour is a uniform greyish-black. Frame and legs are covered in rather straight, lengthy, grey or salmon hairs. Hairs on males’ stomach are extra reddish. The body is split into an anterior prosoma (cephalothorax) and a posterior opisthosoma (abdomen), each having no visible segmentation. The former incorporates eight eyes, ahead chelicerae with ventral, backward claws related to venom glands, two pedipalps and 8 taking walks legs, the latter has long spinnerets and pairs of booklungs with ventral slit openings.

The brazilian salmon pink remains out of doors its den greater often than other tarantulas. Additionally it is motionless and rarely movements, however if it does it’s far very brief. To defend itself it first flicks off urticating hairs from its stomach with its hind legs. These hairs can motive extreme (allergenic) reactions. If this doesn’t help it hits with its fore legs.

This tarantula is full of life and voracious. Within the wild, the species is understood to even prey on the damaging lance-headed viper. The prey is predigested in the front of the mouth by way of digestive juices injected via the chelicerae. The liquefied content material of the prey is eventually sucked.

Both sexes have their genital aperture in front on the ventral aspect of the stomach. The male deposits a drop of sperm on a self-made net to switch it with its pedipalps to the girl’s genital starting. After copulation the female produces a cocoon with up to 1200 eggs. Well fed specimens grow hastily and attain maturity in 2 (males) or 3 years (girls). The brazilian salmon pink might also stay as much as 12-15 years, and adults will moult once a yr which, in each case, lasts 10 hours, the spider lying on its lower back.