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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Mygalomorphs (Mygalomorphae) » Tarantulas (Theraphosidae) » Aphonopelma » Aphonopelma vorhiesi
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large spider, eating spider - Aphonopelma vorhiesi
Copyright © 2013 Joyce Gross

large spider, eating spider - Aphonopelma vorhiesi
Pena Blanca Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 27, 2013

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 10 August, 2013 - 5:35pm
Last updated 23 January, 2018 - 11:11am

Moved
Moved from Aphonopelma.
… Kari J McWest, 23 January, 2018 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

"What time is it, Mr. Wolf?" "It's - dinner time."
The spider the Tarantula is feeding on is a burrowing wolf spider. Notice the pattern on its abdomen.
… Richard L. Hayes, 30 November, 2013 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Joyce Gross, 12 August, 2013 - 1:40am login or register to post comments

Interesting - I missed this one...
I wonder if the bigger one is a trapdoor spider?
… Robyn Waayers, 10 August, 2013 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

 
after all the tarantulas we saw
I didn't recognize this one. I also couldn't figure out what else it could be. I also don't know spiders at all! Anyway, I thought everyone saw this spider but we were trying to leave and it was the last thing I saw/photographed by Alice's light on the hillside.
… Joyce Gross, 12 August, 2013 - 1:46am login or register to post comments

 
Just a different species
from those Desert Blondes we kept seeing. Would be nice to have a key to these Aphonopelma -- that's the kind we often have in California and I never know their species.
… Robyn Waayers, 12 August, 2013 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

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