Linothele megatheloides

[m0lsx]

I know it's not a Tarantula, being a funnel web. I also seem to think it's not a true spider either, but, but being a funnel web, a primitive spider. But this seemed the best place to put this.

I (we) have just been given Linothele megatheloides, colombian funnel web spider called Satan. I have found a little out about it. Moist-ish substrate. big webber, nothing known about bite. Google has shown they have been for sale in the UK reasonably recently. But beyond that, does anything know anything about these? General consensus seems to be easy to keep.

My Linothele megatheloides seems fairly chilled, it has been in the boot of the car in a cardboard box for about 45 minutes & remained out on show, then I removed a Morioworm from it's enclosure & it walked for cover! So it's not too skittish.

A beautiful looking spider, I'll get a photo, when it recovers from me upsetting it.

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[Konstantin]

Hi
Tom moran just made a podcast about Linothele species.

My New Linothele Species! - Tom's Big Spiders - Tarantulas and Inverts

Well, after years of admiring them, I finally picked up a couple Linothele species from Eresus Spider Shop. My first impressions? I'm enamored with them. In this episode, I talk about how I set them up and my early observations. Eresus Spider Shop:

www.buzzsprout.com

Also Basin79 on YouTube has Linothele fallax that regularly shows in its content so maybe reach out to him for information

Regards Konstantin

Forgot to post link to Basin79. lol

Also Linothele megatheloides is now Linothele sericata so maybe try looking info on that name too

Article in regards of the name change below.

NMBE - World Spider Catalog

Detailed taxonomic information about the spider families

wsc.nmbe.ch

@Enn49 sorry about multitude of posts will you be able to merge them for me. please
Regards Konstantin

 

[m0lsx]

Hi
Tom moran just made a podcast about Linothele species.

My New Linothele Species! - Tom's Big Spiders - Tarantulas and Inverts

Well, after years of admiring them, I finally picked up a couple Linothele species from Eresus Spider Shop. My first impressions? I'm enamored with them. In this episode, I talk about how I set them up and my early observations. Eresus Spider Shop:

www.buzzsprout.com

Also Linothele megatheloides is now Linothele sericata so maybe try looking info on that name too

Article in regards of the name change below.

NMBE - World Spider Catalog

Detailed taxonomic information about the spider families

wsc.nmbe.ch

Thanks, I'll check out the name change.