Comments on: The size of an Armadeira

By: Ébano

Ébano — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:21:54 +0000

Sim cara eu sou brasileiro e li seu artigo e achei simplesmente “wonderful” porque explica muito sobre a vida de seres extraordinários que eu tanto adoro e protejo, pena que primeiramente você precisa aprender a admirar tal beleza. Thank you very much man. (Unfortunately it seems to be that I am the first brazilian to read this article).

By: An Eight Legged Summer « Pick Me Yard

An Eight Legged Summer « Pick Me Yard — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:55:39 +0000

[...] a really fun bug blog, check out The Bug Lady. My favorite post is the one about the Brazilian Armadeira spider… it tries to kill you. [...]

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:12:55 +0000

Hello, and greetings from Mexico. I congratulate you on your blog, I enjoy reading it a lot. I found your page because the BBC published an article about the medicinal properties of the venom of the armadeira spider. As an Homeopath we use spider poison as remedies, but not this one (yet). I believe it can be a wonderful addition to the repertoire against illnesses. Thanks for your time! Muito obrigado! Hasta la vista!

By: BugLady

BugLady — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:53:32 +0000

I don’t mind it at all, Gerardo! Just keep in mind that everything I write on here is open to discussion and to corrections. I’m just an enthusiast :)

By: Gerardo Dauzart

Gerardo Dauzart — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:35:02 +0000

G’day, It’s great to find a good blog like this one. Do you mind if I use some of your info, and I’ll leave a link back to your website?

By: BugLady

BugLady — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:24:06 +0000

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By: BugLady

BugLady — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:39:05 +0000

Hey that’s awesome info! I wonder if I have any pictures from these two spiders that show the underside of the abdomen in detail.

Maybe it’s time to write another post clearing all of this up… you can be my contributor, hehe.
I’d love to read that article. Maybe you can send it to me at admin@phoneutria.us?

By: Techuser

Techuser — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:43:08 +0000

lol I’m flooding your comment box :D
Today I got the article directly from the authors, I can send it you if you want
it says that til 2001 nigriventer and keyserling were synonyms, now on 2007 they were separated in different species again with this publication
“Most recently, Simó and Brescovit (2001) synonymised both P. keyserlingi and P. pertyi with P.nigriventer, stating that these two species are just morphological variations of P. nigriventer.”

It contains keys and photos for the species
pertyi is a lot different, has a whiteish tone and I never saw one
the photo I linked on the comment above is indeed a keyserlingi, and the overall way to identify them without having to look at the genitals is to look at the ventral side, nigriventer (as the latin name says and I never paid attention to it) has a darker belly, black in the females, keyserlingi have the underside “brownish to orange with a distinct orange shield”.

By: Techuser

Techuser — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:02:53 +0000

Look what I found in a 2007 paper abstract
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01526p036f.pdf
“Phoneutria keyserlingi (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) and P. pertyi (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897), currently listed as junior synonyms of P. nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891), are revalidated and a modern redescription of P. pertyi is presented”
Now we need to see what that revalidation led to, and which one is the pertyi, for the looks of it seems that keyserling and phoneutria are the same and pertyi turned to be a true different species
the arcticle is for subscriptors only but I’ll try to get it

This is the strange one I thought to be keyserlingi
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6706/img7319k.jpg
…. maybe now its a pertyi? lol

By: Techuser

Techuser — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:50:47 +0000

Thanks… did you see my ctenidae set? :D
accepting comments in portuguese?
I’m also just a hobbist mostly, I do study biology but still regarding invertebrates its all from personal experiences/reading

I also dont know for sure about the IDs, didnt asked to be pokey :)
but the characteristics you said I think its more from sexual dimorphism, like I never saw a male with the white dots like that female has
A difference I use to see in females happens to be on the abdomen drawings, the stripes at their back, but that could also be just variatons on specimens level

One other thing that leds me to think 99,9% of the ones we see are nigriventer, is a really diferent one I found once, the chelicerae color was faded out, no abdomen markings and the overall body had different proportions.. that one was clearly not a nigriventer, its not on flickr but I will put on imageshack for you to take a look