Pterinochilus murinus (OBT) 3/4”

Pterinochilus murinus (OBT) 3/4”size 3 4 Quite possibly the meanest tarantula on the planet. The OBT originally stood for orange baboon tarantula. However for many people the acronym orange bitey thing seems more appropriate for their rather poor attitude. Described in 1897 by legendary British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock. These angry spiders will rage web over their entire enclosure and your stupid plastic plants just to annoy you. Adults can reach 6 inches in leg span and will

These terrestrial spiders were described in 1806 by French zoologist Pierre-André Latreille

It’s not a tarantula collection without a Green Bottle Blue

but are a bit more ethical for the pet trade

this tropical terrestrial spider will definitely make you stop to look at it

Not much info on them

so it’s unclear exactly what this spider that we have in the hobby actually is

When they were first described as Thrigmopoeus psychedelicus in 2014

These were the most common pet tarantula for decades while exports from Chile were being sent out in huge numbers

First described by Canadian arachnologist Rick West & Sam Marshall from the USA in the year 2000

but they will also scavenge on dead crickets etc left by their web

-Sometimes males are mature

Little info is out there on this undescribed Vietnamese species but I’m excited to grow these out myself and get photos of the striking adults