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Golden blue-leg baboon spider

Harpactira pulchripes

Davart il num: Its specific name, pulchripes, comes from Latin and means 'beautiful foot'.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Tarantulas e filiens funnel-web

Morsas

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The golden blue-legged baboon spider is a tarantula with a bright yellow or orange body and metallic blue legs. It lives in South Africa, and it is prized by tarantula keepers in Europe and America. Its venom is medically significant, so it is best admired from a distance.1

Viva en

South Africa, including the Grahamstown area (now Makhanda)1

Africa

Pagina iniziala

It lives in mainly arid country, at about 580 m above sea level, where the average temperature is 25 °C and average yearly rainfall is 628 mm. It is a fossorial tarantula, meaning it is adapted to digging.1

Lunghezza

10 cm fin 14 cm (3,9 in fin 5,5 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 1,6 km/h (0,99 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Foto da Golden blue-leg baboon spider — Golden blue-leg baboon spider. Foto: The LionHeart Experience. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Metallic blue legs that turn vivid orange or yellow closer to the body.1
Orange or yellow carapace (the shield over the front of the body) with some black patterning.1
The abdomen (rear body) has the same black patterning as the carapace.1
Males have longer legs and duller colours than females.1
Females have a diagonal leg span of up to 14 cm, while males reach 10 cm.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

This spider has medically significant venom. Little is known about how strong it is.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

This spider has medically significant venom, though little information exists about its strength. It is described as skittish rather than defensive, which is unusual given that its venom is medically significant.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It is skittish rather than defensive, and it is incredibly fast.1

Sch'el morda

Lava la morsa e sfradenta ella. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche las dolurs èn fermas u sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè lung sco 4 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpudess currer 100 meters en 220 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Golden blue-leg baboon spider cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Golden blue-leg baboon spider circa 1,6 km/h (0,99 mph)

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Most members of its subfamily, the Harpactirinae, are known for being aggressive, but this species is the exception with a noticeably calmer temper.1

Although it is incredibly fast, it spends much of its time on display in its webs.1

It is a very highly desired tarantula in the European and American tarantula keeping hobby.1

Males are smaller, have longer legs and duller colours than the females.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: All baboon spiders are aggressive.

Vardad: Most Harpactirinae are known for aggression, but this species has a noticeably more relaxed temper than others in its subfamily.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Harpactira pulchripes
Gruppa: Tarantulas e filiens funnel-web
Famiglia: Theraphosidae2
Urden: Araneae
Continents: Africa
Durada da vita: circa 12 onns1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Harpactira pulchripes (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Harpactira pulchripes (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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