Pinkfoot goliath tarantula
The pinkfoot goliath tarantula is one of the biggest spiders in the world, as big as the famous goliath birdeater. It is coffee brown with long orange hairs. When it is young, the tips of its legs are pink, like it has painted toenails.
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Its body can be almost 9 centimetres long, and its back legs are about 10 centimetres long.
The pink on its feet fades a little every time it sheds its skin, until it is gone.
Grown-up males get a shiny wine-red sheen on parts of their body and legs.
It can make a hissing sound by rubbing special parts of its legs together.
Even expert spider keepers find it hard to look after, because it is jumpy and needs very damp air.
Most asked questions about Pinkfoot goliath tarantula
?How big is the pinkfoot goliath tarantula?
Its body is about 8 to 9 centimetres long, and its longest legs are about 10 centimetres.
?Why is it called pinkfoot?
Because young ones have pink tips on their legs, which fade as they grow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Theraphosa apophysis
- Named by
- Tinter, 1991
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Theraphosa apophysis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by JR Ferrer-Paris. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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