About Brachypelma emilia (White, 1856)
This species is commonly called the Mexican redleg or red-legged tarantula, with the scientific name Brachypelma emilia (White, 1856). It has a dark-colored body, with the second leg joint displaying pink, red, or orange. Its light-colored carapace features a distinctive black triangle at the front. Colors become more pronounced directly after moulting. For an adult female, the body is roughly 65 mm long, the legspan measures 12.5 cm, and body weight is approximately 15 to 16 grams. White's original 1856 description reads: Deep blackish-brown; the basal joint of the chelicera has some scattered red hairs on the front; the cephalothorax is a rich yellowish-red, covered in short, close, velvet-like hairs; the fourth and fifth leg joints are covered in yellowish-red hairs, and the end of the fifth joint has many brown hairs; the fourth joint of the first pair of legs has a curiously hooked process near its end, which is also covered in red hairs; the underside of the fifth and sixth joints and the tarsi are covered in a close, dense, velvet pad. The body is brown, with longish, scattered red hairs that are a deeper hue than the red hairs on other body parts. This species is distributed in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit.
