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It is a variant. Here is a page with a drawing of the difference in leg patterns: http://www.artroposfera.com/art%C3%ADculos/tar%C3%A1ntulas/identificac%C3%ADon-poecilotheria-sp/ I bred a normal pair of these many years back in SA and a while after the babies had grown up, realised that I had...

Now you are testing my memory. I have had males mature very small in communals. Think I had a P.fasciata around 10 or 11cm.

I have had pokie males mature very small. But if you say that you saw the hooks, then it is definately not a Poecilotheria as the males don't develop hooks at maturity.

Quite a few of the Ceratogyrus species have the band: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.tarantula.store/carapace-Ceratogyrus.htm Augacephalus also have a band, but it is a little lighter than the Ceratogyrus species

I need a picture from below showing the leg patterns. Here is also an interesting link to Pokies: http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/spiders-inverts/234784-newbie-guide-poecilotheria.html Whatever the spider is, it is a mature male

Post a picture showing its leg patterns from below

They only develop the band at around 8cm, so its not visible on the little ones. As for the subfusca, I highly doubt that there are any "pure" highland and lowland subfusca's in the hobby (Assuming they are different). They have been so mixed up and interbred in the hobby across the world, that...

This is one of the distinguishing features of regalis. Of the Poecilotheria in the hobby, this is the only one with the band

And that is my point exactly. I am almost certain that there are plenty of hybrids out there in everyone's collections. And i would still like to know if anyone checks their spiders against official description papers. I have been taken on before for keeping hybrids, but yet it seems like most...

C.brachycephalus x C.darlingi. Even the species that would seem straight forward can easily get confused. I have seen numerous people misidentifying brachycephalus as darlingi. Someone breeds the 2, sells the slings. The buyer raises the spider and then realises that it looks like something...

It sure looks like one though. :) If this was sold as a marshalli I'm sure most would believe it.

Like I said this is all just my take on the subject after being involved in spiders for 20 years. Species such as vagans in the hobby are seriously mixed up when you look at pictures of them in the wild. Same with albopilosum. I reckon albovagans are more common in the hobby than everyone...

Anyone want to take a guess on this species of Ceratogyrus?

Hybrids can be bred otherwise there would be no need for concern as the hybrid offspring would never amount to anything. Generally tarantula people run around with blinkers on. It would be almost impossible to prove, but my feeling is that most people have hybrids in their collections. How many...

Definately not an old world spider, so not H.gigas. I don't keep any new worlds, so won't take a guess at Genus/species