Mexican pink tarantula
The Mexican pink tarantula is a big, hairy spider with a rusty pink glow. Its legs are banded orange-yellow and black. It is the rarest tarantula of its group, and it lives only in a small part of Mexico.
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With its legs stretched out, it is about 16 centimetres across, as wide as a big hand.
It lives on mountain slopes between 300 and 1400 metres above the sea.
Fewer than 1 in 1000 babies survive from egg to grown-up in the wild.
Because so many were caught for the pet trade, it is protected by a worldwide agreement.
Its body is black on top, which helps tell it apart from a very similar orange-backed cousin.
Most asked questions about Mexican pink tarantula
?How big is the Mexican pink tarantula?
Its body is 6 to 7.5 centimetres long, and with its legs it spans about 16 centimetres.
?Why is it rare?
It grows slowly, its home is being damaged, and many were taken from the wild as pets.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brachypelma klaasi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Brachypelma klaasi (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 George Chernilevsky. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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