Veracruz red-rump tarantula
The Veracruz red-rump tarantula is a dark, hairy spider with lots of red hair on its bottom and legs. It comes from Mexico and lives in a burrow in the ground. It is one of the smaller tarantulas in its group, but still bigger than a matchbox.
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Fun facts
Its back legs are its longest, up to 58 millimetres long on a male.
The mother lays fewer eggs than her cousins do, but they are bigger, so the babies are bigger too.
Scientists first described it in 2008, using spiders that were kept as pets in Germany.
It looks a lot like a cousin tarantula, but it has much more red hair.
Most asked questions about Veracruz red-rump tarantula
?How big is the Veracruz red-rump tarantula?
Its body is about 32 to 41 millimetres long, and the females are the bigger ones.
?Where does the Veracruz red-rump tarantula live?
Around Veracruz in Mexico, in burrows it makes in the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tliltocatl kahlenbergi
- Named by
- Rudloff, 2008
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tliltocatl kahlenbergi (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 Fucesa. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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