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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 20056" data-attributes="member: 371">Sorry, missed your edit.If you have been in the hobby for a while you will know that there are always accidental hybrids being produced. Mainly from inexperienced people breeding them.Just from your list of spiders that you own:A.geniculata. Many people still can't tell the difference between different species of Acanthoscurria and hybrids have been reported from these.A.avicularia. Let's not even start with the Avics. I have seen plenty people confuse the different Avics and accidentally breed them together. I am sure 90% of the people on here would agree that they have heard of the Avic Genus being a disaster.B.vagans. Let's not even start here. There are so many 'red rumps' that have been hybridized it's not even funny. Mainly because of common names being used and people not knowing what species are being wild caught and imported as red rumps.L.parahybana. Again, many people have no clue to the differences between different Lasiodora species. Post a picture of a Lasiodora on a site and I can tell you that not everyone will say it's the same species. These I am pretty sure that they have been crossed unfortunately.Pamphobeteus sp. unless it's a wild caught spider, if it's got a "" behind the name it is because the species has not yet been described. How do the people that breed these know that they actually have a valid species. Who says that there are not numerous species found in the area that they were collected in?C.huahini. You do realise that what  you have is not huahini hey? Stefan who studies these spiders has said that what we have in the hobby is probably an undescribed species and NOT huahini. What have these been bred to to get all of the spiders in the hobby? Who knows?H.gigas. Once again, same as above. What we have in the hobby is probably an undescribed species. The scientists that are working on Hysterocrates have asked everyone to name their species according to where they have been imported from and the month. That way people can  breed the right species together. What we have in SA is not H.gigas purely (or even possibly at all) so that 'species' is a total mess up, possibly worldwide.I will go search for links tonight to prove a few of the above to you if you are willing to approach it with an open mind?</blockquote>

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