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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 241717" data-attributes="member: 49228">The spider known scientifically as Avicularia juruensis has had a confusing history for the last 100 years. Avicularia juruensis was initially described by Mello-Leitão in 1923 as being from the Juruá River region of Brazil. In 1994 it was identified as Avicularia urticans by Schmidt based on specimens from Peru. In 2017, Fukushima and Bertani synonymized A. urticans with A. juruensis, recognizing two distinct morphotypes within the species. Morphotype 1 was primarily found along the Rio Juruá drainage. It includes spiders previously described (or misidentified) as Avicularia Sp pucallpa, Avicularia urticans “green”, Avicularia aurantiaca, and even Avicularia ulrichea. This morphotype has a faint green sheen to their carapace and femurs. Morphotype 2 is more widespread from Manaus to the Amazon's headwaters in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. Particularly as subadult juveniles, they have a faint purple sheen when the light hits them just right. Here are two specimens that I am raising here at Josh’s Frogs. I will post more pictures as they mature to highlight the differences between these two morphotypes of Avicularia juruensis.[ATTACH=full]77297[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]77299[/ATTACH]</blockquote>