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Mexican rose-gray tarantula

Tliltocatl verdezi

Name means: “named after J.-M. Verdez”

Eats: Other bugs and small animals SpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin

The Mexican rose-gray tarantula is a fairly small tarantula from southern Mexico. The male is very dark, almost black, with red and orange hairs on his back end and legs. The female is a little lighter in colour.

Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!

Lives in

Southern Mexico, in Guerrero and Oaxaca near the Pacific coast

Length

3 cm (1.2 in)

the body of a male

Top speed

about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Can bite

Watch out! Read about its close cousin on Venom Wiki →

What does it eat?

Like other tarantulas, it catches insects and other small animals.

Photo of Mexican rose-gray tarantula — Picture by Original: User:MrKevin04 Derived: Peter Coxhead. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

as long as 5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds

How big is Mexican rose-gray tarantula compared to YOU?

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How fast is it?

A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Mexican rose-gray tarantula about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

cool stuff

Fun facts

It is small for its group. A male's body is about 3 centimetres long.

Its longest legs, the back pair, are about 5.5 centimetres long.

For years pet keepers called it by the wrong name, "pallidum", which means pale, even though it is very dark.

Its tarantula group is protected by an international law that limits trade in them.

you asked

Most asked questions about Mexican rose-gray tarantula

?Where does the Mexican rose-gray tarantula live?

In southern Mexico, in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca.

?Who is the Mexican rose-gray tarantula named after?

Its scientific name honours J.-M. Verdez, one of the first people to notice it was being called by the wrong name.

For bug experts

Scientific name: Tliltocatl verdezi
Named by: Schmidt, 2003
Group: Spiders
Family: Theraphosidae
Classification: Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
Lives on: North America

Where the facts come from

Tliltocatl verdezi (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 Original: User:MrKevin04 Derived: Peter Coxhead. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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