Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Mygalomorphae
- Family: Theraphosidae
- Genus: Brachypelma
Author
Simon, 1891
Sightings Overview
There have been 7 confirmed sightings of Brachypelma, with the most recent sighting submitted on November 20, 2019 by Spider ID member rickcwest. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 7 sightings because of certain Brachypelma sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 0% of the time, Brachypelma spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 7)
- Sex: 6 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Brachypelma has been sighted 18 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Ground layer (4). Under rock or debris (6). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (4). Desert area (2).
Location and Range
Brachypelma has been sighted in the following countries: Mexico.
Seasonality
Brachypelma has been primarily sighted during the month of March.
- January:
- February:
- March: 3
- April:
- May:
- June:
- July: 1
- August: 1
- September:
- October: 1
- November:
- December: 1