Ornithoctanus aureotibialis

She came today.... so here she is!

Omg it's gorgeous! I miss mine more now. In case you didn't know (which you probably did) just keep it like a Haplo. Aren't the orange hairs the best?!

shes gorgeuos lisa, im sure sstigg is very much so in love hee

oooh yes he is!

Its quite funny really she has a new enclosure and refuses to come off the kitchen roll she was packaged in! In fact she is spinning it all together to make sure she cant be moved lol!

We have looked at other pictures of this species and they all look slightly lighter than she is. Is there a dark colour form to this species?

And yes the orange hairs are lovely... just need to get her in the right light to get that sheen you see on pictures.

LadyRiotControl wrote:

We have looked at other pictures of this species and they all look slightly lighter than she is.

Could be washed-out photos . . .

Cool T by the way.

yeah possibly photoshopped a bit.

she has now totally sealed herself in the kitchen roll.... plonker!

hehe some T's are retarded lol

that's a beautiful tarantula lisa!

Very pretty T you got there, Lisa!

cheers...

now she has joined the ends of the kitchen roll together and all you can see through a gap is her back legs!

at about 1am this morning she finally came out so i pulled the kitchen roll out. and for a 'burrowing' tarantula she is asleep in the top corner of her enclosure!

Lolz. Lori's P. irminia has been doing that lately.

Woah, I just saw this thread. That is one gorgeous T!!

aye but it turns out it isn't O.Aureotibialis. Its not arboreal! It burrows!

It's some sort of Haplopelma, but which one we're not sure of. Not that we're complaining she is stunning!

I love the stripes!

I want a H. albostriatum... Which yours looks a lot like, eh. Maybe why I like it so much.

yeah we were wondering if she was some sort of thai zebra too!

She is gorgeous either way, you two have a fantastic collection!

cheer's me dears

LadyRiotControl wrote:

aye but it turns out it isn't O. aureotibialis. Its not arboreal! It burrows!

It's some sort of Haplopelma, but which one we're not sure of. Not that we're complaining she is stunning!

IIRC, Ornithoctonus are burrowers, and not arboreals. Lori had a pair and the female made quite a nice burrow, actually. And they are close relatives of Haplopelma. When Lori posted pics of hers everyone tried telling her that's what it was. I believe they're in the same subfamily, though.

yup brain fart again i was thinking of something else!