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Taken in Dominican Republic
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- Submitted: Dec 29, 2017
- Photographed: Dec 28, 2017
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Tarantula, I don’t know them well. When I do an image search for what might be in range I see some that may be the same as yours but I don’t know if any of them were IDed by a reliable source. I’ll leave this as “unidentified” for a while so if anyone wants to chime in with insight as to the genus/species they’ll be more likely to see it.
Hi there, I found this. The picture of the juvenile looks just like the spider in your picture.
http://dominicanspiders.blogspot.com/2014/09/theraphosidae-phormictopus-atrichomatus.html?m=1
But I believe that ‘atrichomatus’ might not be right, that cancerides may be it instead based on all the information I was able to find. Check out the link below; it has very thorough information but lacks pictures.
http://tarantulacache.blogspot.com/2012/12/phormictopus-cancerides-hispaniolan.html?m=1
Hope this helps.
You might be right, I can’t confirm it one way or the other. At first the wild iridescence on some of the images I saw threw me off but the OP’s spider has hints of purple on it when viewed full size so that may just be a matter of lighting. I get the impression though that this one looks closer to a mature male. Mature males often have relatively longer legs and a small abdomen like this one. Another detail I notice is the bulge or extra tuft of hair on the first pair of legs, it matches up… Read more »