Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: California Tarantulas & Primitive Spiders
There are over 45 described species of mygalomorphae putatively located in Califorina, USA.
Over 25 of these species are non-Theraphosidae (tarantula) mygalos!
There are 6 Families of Mygalomorphae in CA, each with their own treatment thread:
ANTRODIAETIDAE - 3 Genera 14 Species
CTENIZIDAE - 2 Genera 2 species
CYRTAUCHENIIDAE - 3 Genera 8 Species
MECICOBOTHRIIDAE - 2 Genera 2 Species
NEMESIIDAE - 1 Genus 2 Species
THERAPHOSIDAE - no treatment started yet
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i wonder if it would take an expert to actually know what we found in any one of those areas that have more than one or if there are any identifying marks at all to tell them apart?? Or if the Aphonopelma phanum, for example, is the absolute only T found in OC - like the ones in San Juan Capistrano or Casper's Regional Park?? Very interesting.
heres a list i borrowed off another site
so according to this theres plenty out there we just have to start looking,
Aphonopelma brunnius - San Mateo Co., Santa Clara Co.
Aphonopelma californica - San Diego Co. http://www.entomology.ucr.edu/ebeling/plates/plate6-8.jpg
Aphonopelma clarum - Los Angeles Co. ( near Claremont)
Aphonopelma cratium - Los Angeles Co.
Aphonopelma cryptheum - Los Angeles Co.
Aphonopelma eutylenum - San Diego Co., north to Kern Co.
Aphonopelma iodius - Riverside Co, San Bernardino Co,. Kern Co., Inyo Co.
Aphonopelma joshua - San Bernardino Co., Riverside Co.
Aphonopelma leiogaster
Aphonopelma marxi - San Bernardino Co. (S. Bernardino Mts.) Tom Prentice, however says that A. marxi is in fact unknown from CA
Aphonopelma mojave - San Bernardio Co, Kern Co., Inyo Co., Los Angeles Co
Aphonopelma phanum - Orange Co. (Laguna Beach)
Aphonopelma radinum - Los Angeles Co. (Manhattan, Beach)
Aphonopelma reversum - Orange Co., Riverside Co, San Diego Co. http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.../habitus/Aphonopelma_reversum.jpg
Aphonopelma rileyi - Santa Barbara Co. (Santa Barbara)
Aphonopelma rusticum - Alameda Co. (Berkeley)
Aphonopelma steindachneri - San Diego Co.
here is the first set of Google Image Searches for the non-thereaphosidae
if the google image search link just says the genus name then there were no species level pics available
if the google image search link is an italic genus then there is no search to genus level (see second set)
Wow! I never knew that the trapdoor spiders were mini tarantulas. I've always thought that they looked like hairless T's but I never knew nor would've guessed that they were Ts!
http://core.ecu.edu/biol/bondja/p...ations/Hendrixson%20%26%20Bond%20(2005a)%20Microunicolor.pdf
Hendrixson, BE, J.E. Bond. 2005. Two sympatric species of Antrodiaetus from Southwestern North Carolina (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Antrodiaetidae). Zootaxa 872: 1-19
note: the url contains %20 characters (spaces) that are not being parsed right. visit the pubs page to download this paper
not native to US... but good to know more natural history of other myg's
ANTRODIAETIDAE folding trapdoor spiders wikipedia
CTENIZIDAE Trapdoor spiders wikipedia
CYRTAUCHENIIDAE wafer trapdoor spiders wikipedia
MECICOBOTHRIIDAE Dwarf tarantulas, also known as sheet funnel-web spiders wikipedia
NEMESIIDAE Funnel-web tarantulas wikipedia
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The wafer trapdoor spiders (superfamily Cyrtauchenioidea, family Cyrtaucheniidae) are a widespread family of spiders that lack the thorn-like spines on tarsi and metatarsi I and II (the two outermost leg segments) found in true trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidae).
okay whats with the stubbies . is there info there? i clicked on everything and nothing comes up? _________________ "the cats apart of me dream. im going to buy a sheep, a horse, anda cow, an raise horses on fiji."
cool..... thought there might be a reason but i am not always hip to some computer stuff. thanks, let me know if i should delete these posts. _________________ "the cats apart of me dream. im going to buy a sheep, a horse, anda cow, an raise horses on fiji."
There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
woohoo! the list that warren and i have been basing this stuff off of is not complete! it had at least one extra species (Nemesoides hesperus) and lacked Apomastus completely!
the plot thickens
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
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