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The Trinidad chevron tarantula breeds freely in captivity. Two silken egg sacs are commonly produced from one mating and each of these contains one hundred to one hundred and fifty eggs. [1] The female spider guards the sac, turning it occasionally, and the eggs hatch after about six weeks. The spiderlings usually disperse at the first instar ...
Psalmopoeus irminia are unique in their striking black coloration paired with vibrant orange chevron and leg markings. Like other Psalmopoeus, this species can often be found in tree cavities at a medium height. Females reach six inches in diagonal leg span on average while males can reach 5 inches.
Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small birds and rodents and even those that consume vertebrate blood).
Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. [1] It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Africa and Central and South America. [2]
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Naatlo Coddington, 1986 – Central America, South America, Trinidad and Tobago Ogulnius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 – South America, Caribbean, Panama, Asia Parogulnius Archer, 1953 – United States
Pityohyphantes, commonly known as hammock spiders, is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1929. [2] The name comes from the Ancient Greek Πίτυς ( pitys ), meaning "pine", and hyphantes , meaning "weaver".
Neoholothele incei is a species of tarantula from Trinidad and Venezuela, [1] commonly called the Trinidad olive tarantula.When mature, the species has a leg-span exceeding 5–7.5 cm (2.0–3.0 in).