smokehound
03-25-2014, 04:19 PM
Here's a little gem from one of my collection sites.. Megahexura fulva, aka the Tawny Dwarf tarantula. (not a true tarantula, closer to trapdoor spiders)
At first glance, you may mistake it for any other spider you see, however upon closer inspection..
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/smokehound/Megahexura.png
..you can easily see the kinship.
The behave similar to dipluridae, making a sheet-web. Adult females reach a body length of no more than 20mm (two cm)..
It's hard to believe, but there are even smaller species of dwarf tarantulas. Microhexura only gets to 4-5mm as an adult, and there's an even smaller species that only gets to 2-3mm..
At first glance, you may mistake it for any other spider you see, however upon closer inspection..
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/smokehound/Megahexura.png
..you can easily see the kinship.
The behave similar to dipluridae, making a sheet-web. Adult females reach a body length of no more than 20mm (two cm)..
It's hard to believe, but there are even smaller species of dwarf tarantulas. Microhexura only gets to 4-5mm as an adult, and there's an even smaller species that only gets to 2-3mm..