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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 ...
Thrixopelma pruriens, known as the Peruvian green velvet tarantula, [2] is a species of tarantula found in Chile and Perú in South America. [1] [3]Though docile, this species is rarely kept as a pet in part due to its tendency to fling urticating hairs with minimal provocation.
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] It is named ockerti after the collector Roland Ockert. [1]
A new tarantula species, Aphonopelma jacobii, was recently discovered in Arizona. Researchers say they are docile and have striking colors. A new tarantula species is discovered in Arizona: What ...
Avicularia avicularia, sometimes called the pinktoe tarantula, is a species of tarantula native from Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. [1] This species is sometimes called the Guyana pinktoe, or South American pinktoe.
Maria Sibylla Merian's illustration of a spider eating a bird, bottom left corner.Published 1705 after a research expedition in Dutch Surinam. The genus Avicularia was erected in 1818 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for species previously placed in Mygale Latreille, 1802, the genus name used at the time for most mygalomorph spiders.
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is the national bird of Peru. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Peru. The avifauna of Peru has 1884 confirmed species, of which 118 are endemic, three have been introduced by humans, and 83 are rare or vagrants. An additional 26 species are hypothetical (see below).
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