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Golden blue-leg baboon spider

Harpactira pulchripes
Kuhusu jina: Its specific name, pulchripes, comes from Latin and means 'beautiful foot'.1
Inauma tuInauma, lakini haitakudhuru vibaya.
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

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

Anaishi
South Africa, including the Grahamstown area (now Makhanda)1
Afrika
Nyumbani
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
Urefu
10 cm hadi 14 cm (3.9 in hadi 5.5 in)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 1.6 kwa saa (maili 0.99 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Golden blue-leg baboon spider
Golden blue-leg baboon spider. Picha: The LionHeart Experience. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • 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

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

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

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

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

Hufanya nini akiogopa?

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

Akiuma

  • Osha jeraha na ulipoze. Tafuta msaada wa kitabibu kama maumivu ni makali au mtu anajisikia vibaya.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

  • Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
  • Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
  • Akikuuma: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Golden blue-leg baboon spider urefu wa takriban 14 cm (5.5 in)Kibanio cha karatasi takriban 3 cm (1.2 in)Simu janja takriban 15 cm (5.9 in)
urefu sawa na matofali 4 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 220 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Golden blue-leg baboon spider ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

Kuvunja dhana potofu

Dhana potofu: All baboon spiders are aggressive.

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

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Harpactira pulchripes
Kundi
Tarantula na buibui wa utando wa faneli
Familia
Theraphosidae2
Mpangilio
Araneae
Mabara
Afrika
Muda wa maisha
takriban miaka 121
Hatari kwa watu
2 / 5: Inauma3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Harpactira pulchripes (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Harpactira pulchripes (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.

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