Lasiodora parahybana

Lasiodora parahybana

Lasiodora parahybana is a tarantula species. It inhabits dry forests and steppes of eastern Brazil, more precisely in the Paraíba region.

Features

With a height of nine to ten inches, it is one of the largest spiders around. It reaches leg spans of up to 30 cm.

The spider has a shaggy appearance with longer and thick gray hair. The spider has a black basic color that goes a little into gray.

Behavior

Lasiodora parahybana is a soil inhabiting tarantula. She hides under the roots, pieces of bark, stones or fall foliage. In colder months and during molting and brood care she retreats into burrows, which they lined in silk spinning.

It produces cocoons with up to 2000 eggs. The newly hatched young are therefore compared to other bird species of spiders usually very small.

The spiders are irritable and use their abdominal urticating hairs for defense. An attacker can face the spider also with raised carapace and spread Beißklauen and take such a " Imponierstellung ". But mostly you will not bite too, but fails with the front legs after the alleged predator.

Habitat

She lives under stones and pieces of bark in dry forests and shrub steppes of eastern Brazil, more precisely in Paraiba area that formerly Parahyba said. This explains the species name.

Gallery

A Beißklaue of Lasiodora parahybana

Lasiodora parahybana, females