Species list: green highlighted
species has an info sheet.
If you have care info you wish
to share please email: tim@arachnofreaks.com
Thank you!
AMERICAN TARANTULA
SOCIETY BASIC CARESHEET FOR TARANTULAS
This is a good basic caresheet which
explains the basics of keeping any tarantula.
Here is a species list with a little more general information if available and pictures of some species:
Thanks to Arachnofreaks member
Darkeye for pronunciations! darkeye@arachnofreaks.com
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Acanthoscurria antillensis |
"pink patch birdeater" |
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Acanthoscurria atrox |
"Brazilian giant black" |
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Acanthoscurria chacoana |
"Bolivian salmon pink" |
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Acanthoscurria brockelhursti |
"giant black and white" |
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Acanthoscurria fracta |
"Para Mongo zebra" |
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Acanthoscurria geniculata |
whitebanded tarantula |
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Acanthoscurria insubtilis |
"Bolivian black velvet" |
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Acanthoscurria juruenicola |
"Brazilian orange banded" |
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Acanthoscurria musculosa |
"Brazilian black velvet" |
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Acanthoscurria suina |
"rusty brown birdeater" |
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Acanthoscurria stenalis |
"black rump birdeater" |
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Aphonopelma anax |
Texas tan tarantula |
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Aphonopelma armada |
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Aphonopelma behlei |
"Grand Canyon black" |
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Aphonopelma bicoloratum |
Mexican bloodleg tarantula |
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Aphonopelma burica |
Costa Rican chestnutzebra tarantula |
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Aphonopelma californicum |
"California black and brown" |
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Aphonopelma caniceps |
"Mexican black velvet" |
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Aphonopelma chalcodes |
desert blond tarantula |
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Aphonopelma clarki |
"Fort Worth brown" |
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Aphonopelma crinita |
"Mexican green" |
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Aphonopelma duplex |
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Aphonopelma eutylenum |
California ebony tarantula |
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Aphonopelma harlingenum |
"Harlingen chocolate brown" |
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Aphonopelma hentzi |
Texas brown tarantula |
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Aphonopelma heterops |
"Texas brown" |
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Aphonopelma iodius |
"Salt Lake county brown" |
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Aphonopelma jungi |
"rodeo black" |
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Aphonopelma moderatum |
Rio Grande gold tarantula |
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Aphonopelma mojave |
"Mojave desert dwarf" |
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Aphonopelma paloma |
"Paloma dwarf" |
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Aphonopelma rusticum |
"Arizona olive" |
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Aphonopelma schmidti |
"Superstition Mountain blonde" |
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Aphonopelma seemanni |
Costa Rican zebra tarantula |
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Aphonopelma steindachneri |
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Aphonopelma texense |
"Texas starr" |
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Aphonopelma vorhiesi |
"Tuscan bronze" |
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Aphonopelma wichitanum |
"Wichita Mountain red" |
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Avicularia aurantiaca |
"yellow banded pinktoe" |
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Avicularia avicularia |
pinktoe tarantula |
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Avicularia bicegoi |
"Brazilian pinktoe" |
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Avicularia bruanshauseni |
"giant pinktoe" |
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Avicularia caesia |
? |
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Avicularia fasciculata |
? |
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Avicularia geroldi |
"Brazilian bluegreen pinktoe" |
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Avicularia juruensis |
yellowbanded tarantula |
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Avicularia laeta |
? |
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Avicularia metallica |
white toe tarantula |
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Avicularia minatrix |
"Venezuelan red stripe" |
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Avicularia nigrotaeniata |
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Avicularia pulchra |
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Avicularia purpurea |
Ecuadorian purple tarantula |
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Avicularia urticans |
Peruvian pinktoe tarantula |
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Avicularia variegata |
? |
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Avicularia versicolor |
Antilles pinktoe tarantula |
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Bonnetina cyaneifemur |
"Mexican blue femur" |
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Bonnetina rudloffi |
"Michoacan Rustrump" |
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Brachypelma albopilosum |
curlyhair tarantula |
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Brachypelma anitha |
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Brachypelma angustum |
Costa Rican red tarantula |
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Brachypelma auratum |
Mexican flameknee tarantula |
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Brachypelma baumgarteni |
Mexican orangebeauty tarantula |
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Brachypelma boehmi |
Mexican fireleg tarantula |
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Brachypelma emilia |
Mexican redleg tarantula |
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Brachypelma epicureanum |
Yucatan rustrump tarantula |
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Brachypelma fossorium |
? |
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Brachypelma klaasi |
Mexican pink tarantula |
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Brachypelma ruhnaui |
"Mexican golden redrump" |
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Brachypelma sabulosum |
"Guatemalan redrump" |
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Brachypelma smithi |
Mexican redknee tarantula |
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Brachypelma vagans |
Mexican redrump tarantula |
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Brachypelma verdezi |
"Mexican rose grey" |
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Ceratogyrus bechuanicus |
curvedhorn tarantula |
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Ceratogyrus brachycephalus |
greaterhorned tarantula |
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Ceratogyrus darlingi |
"African horned tarantula" |
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Ceratogyrus marshalli |
straighthorned tarantula |
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Ceratogyrus meridionalis |
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Ceratogyrus sanderi |
"sandy horned baboon" |
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Chilobrachys andersoni |
Burmese mustard tarantula |
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Chilobrachys fimbriatus |
"Indian violet" |
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Chilobrachys hauhini |
"Hauhini bird spider" |
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Chilobrachys sericeus |
Asian mustard tarantula |
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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens |
greenbottle blue tarantula |
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Citharacanthus crinirufus |
? |
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Citharacanthus longipes |
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Citharacanthus spinicrus |
"Cuban cinnamon" |
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Citharischius crawshayi |
king baboon tarantula |
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Coremiocnemis validus |
"Malay reddish brown" |
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Crassicrus lamanai |
cinnamon tarantula |
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Cyclosternum fasciatum |
Costa Rican tigerrump tarantula |
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Cyclosternum macropus |
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Cyclosternum pentalore |
"Guatemalan tiger rump" |
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Cyclosternum schmardae |
"yellow-banded birdeater" |
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Cyriopagopus paganus |
Asian chevron tarantula |
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Cyriopagopus thorelli |
"Malaysian earth tiger" |
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Cyriopagopus schioedtei |
"Malaysian earth tiger" |
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