Pinkfoot goliath birdeater

Indlela yokusiqaphela

• Base colour is coffee brown in both sexes.1
• Long, scattered orange-brown hairs cover the legs and body, with longer orange hair on the thigh segments (femora).1
• Young spiders have pink shading at the end of each leg, which gradually fades with each moult.1
• Mature males have a metallic 'wine red' sheen on parts of the body and legs.1
• Males have projections on the shin segments (tibiae) of their front legs.1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It closely resembles Theraphosa blondi and reaches a similar size. It can be told apart by its thinner thigh segments (femora) and an extra stridulating organ (a rubbing structure used to make sound) on the second leg.1