Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917 is a animal in the Theraphosidae family, order Araneae, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917

Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917

Acanthoscurria natalensis is a dark-brown ground-dwelling tarantula from northeastern Brazil, closely similar to A. chacoana.

Family
Genus
Acanthoscurria
Order
Araneae
Class
Arachnida

About Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917

Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917 is a dark-brown ground-dwelling tarantula species native to northeastern Brazil. This species looks almost identical to Acanthoscurria chacoana, but two consistent differences set them apart. First, A. natalensis has a longer embolus — the structure on male tarantulas that transfers sperm to females. Second, the keels on A. natalensis are less developed than those on A. chacoana.

Photo: (c) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ivan L. F. Magalhaes · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Arachnida Araneae Theraphosidae Acanthoscurria

More from Theraphosidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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