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A South Korean man was arrested in Peru for allegedly attempting to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes on a flight back to Korea. The 28-year-old Korean citizen, who was not named by ...
Airport security stopped the smuggler, who was also carrying nine bullet ants illegally taken from the Amazon rainforest
Thrixopelma ockerti, commonly known as the Peruvian Flame Rump or Flame Rump Tree Spider, is a species of tarantula and the type species of the genus Thrixopelma.It is endemic to Peru and was first described by Gunter Schmidt in 1994. [1]
Sandfly species transmit the disease leishmaniasis, by acting as vectors for protozoan Leishmania species, and tsetse flies transmit protozoan trypansomes (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypansoma brucei rhodesiense) which cause African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Ticks and lice form another large group of invertebrate vectors.
Avicularia juruensis is a species of spider in the family Theraphosidae, found in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil). Avicularia urticans was brought into synonymy in 2017. [1] [2] It has been given the English name Amazonian pink toe spider. [3] Under the synonym Avicularia urticans, it is also known as the Peruvian pinktoe ...
Ornithoctoninae is a subfamily of tarantulas found in Southeast Asia. It was first erected in 1895 by Reginald Innes Pocock based on the type specimen Ornithoctonus andersoni . The Ornithoctoninae comprise a theraphosid subfamily, which is widely distributed in Asia from Myanmar to South China in the north and as far as to Halmahera in the ...
Tarantulas normally hunt by staying in their burrows and waiting for their prey to come to them, according to a Texas A&M field guide. Their prey includes crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, cicadas ...
Acanthoscurria theraphosoides (Doleschall, 1871) - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana Acanthoscurria turumban Rodríguez-Manzanilla & Bertani, 2010 - Venezuela Acanthoscurria urens Vellard, 1924 - Brazil