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04/01/2025

📣 Big announcement time!

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Stay tuned for details

03/26/2025

A revision of the family Macrothelidae has created some new genera and name changes for some of the hobby spiders that we are familiar with.

Macrothele calpeiana stays the same. This species described in 1805 is the type species for the genus Macrothele.

Macrothele hungae (ex hobby M. gigas) is now Gigathele hungae. This is a bit confusing as most people will know this spider as Macrothele gigas in the hobby. However what has been sold as M. gigas for decades in the hobby was always really just misidentified Macrothele hungae from Taiwan. The real M. gigas is only known from a small population on Japan’s Ryukyu island. Gigathele hungae is the large, mean, black spider with the red fangs that most people desire and seek out in the hobby.

Macrothele holsti is now Spinathele holsti. This small species from Taiwan that was described in 1901 now has a new genus name.

Macrothele taiwanensis is now Vacrothele taiwanensis. This small species from Taiwan that was described in 1998 now has a new genus name.

Macrothele monocirculata is now Gigathele monocirculata.
This medium sized species from China that was described in 2000 now has a new genus.

Macrothele yaginumai is now Vacrothele yaginumai. This small species from Japan that was described in 1998 now has a new genus name.

There may be some other changes for some of the other lesser known species that sometimes pop up that will require a bit more looking into. These are the most commonly kept species though.

Reference:
Shao, L. L., Zhou, Z. C. & Lin, Y. J. (2025). Taxonomic revision of Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 and description of four new genera (Araneae, Macrothelidae). The Indochina Entomologist1(36): 337-350

https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/18365

03/19/2025

We are currently out of town. All orders placed now will ship on Monday March 31st. The website will send you tracking info when your order is processed, sometime before March 30th. If you don’t receive that email, be sure to check your spam folders. I’m available by email for further assistance. Thanks for your patience.
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03/17/2025

Don’t forget when you purchase a sticker we have the add on option for a personal insult. If you need confirmation that you are a worthless turd, I’m your man 🥸

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03/15/2025

Shipping on Monday will be normal, then we will be out of town for two weeks. There’s a lot of cool stuff coming that will be ready to ship the first week of April when we are back.!

Pandinus imperator adults!

03/14/2025

If you ever wanted to listen to my awkward ass talk about tarantulas for 2 hours, here’s you chance. Thanks Justin & Nisarg from ArachNerds for having me on! Even if you don’t want to listen, put it on anyways and let it play just so I can get more views then Kat’s episode does 😂😘

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03/13/2025

I took this photo back in 2013 when I had a mature male Neoholothele escape from its enclosure. 2 weeks later I found it behind my TV tied up in a Parasteatoda web. That little house spider managed to get the tarantula suspended off the ground by 2 inches when I found it, and was starting to feed on the abdomen.

03/12/2025

Rare arboreal trapdoor spider in the Barychelidae family. These dwarf spiders build a trapdoor retreat on the side of bark similar to Typhochlaena species, but with opposing duel style trapdoors. They tend to be found on coconut trees close to the coast, but will easily adapted to cork bark in captivity. I’ve even had them build the trapdoors right on the sides of the plastic shipping containers. Adults reach one inch and are interesting and easy to keep. Described in 2003 by Austrian arachnologist Peter J. Schwendingerl. These spiders are native to Thailand and Malaysia.

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03/10/2025

Inventory update…

Archispirostreptus gigas
Aphonopelma seemanni
Calommata obesa
Heteropoda lunula “Thailand”
Leiurus quinquestriatus
Ornithoctonus sp. Uthai Thani
Rhysida Sp. “Nigeria”
Sason sundaicum
Schizocosa ceratiola

03/08/2025

We are tuned in to the British Tarantula Society lectures today. Hopefully I can attend in person one day again, but thankful for the live stream while I sit here feeding my spiders. So far the lectures have been great. Thanks to the BTS for continuing to put this together for all these years.

02/28/2025

❗️Tomorrow Long Island !

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Garden City, NY 11530

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02/15/2025

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02/14/2025

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