Mexican Red Rump (Brachypelma vagans) Care Sheet Keeping Exotic Pets
B. Vagans was the tarantula used in the 1955 movie Tarantula. The Ch'ol Maya consider these spiders to be positive; and use them medicinally. A hierbatero kills it, then crushes it, mixes it with spirit alcohol and strains out any irritating hairs with a traditional cloth. The beverage is used for the treatment of "tarantula wind" the symptoms.
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The use of B. vagans was prescribed for the same symptoms in all the Chol villages and villages with a mix of Chol and people of various other origins. The patient comes to the 'hierbatero' (or herbalist) who takes the pulse at the wrist while he asks about the patient's illness and also his/her relational problems with people from the community.
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Updated on November 21, 2022 Talk about an impressive spider that has a great back story in addition to a brightly colored rump! This globetrotter has been renamed and rediscovered in many places over the last century and is now commonly found in a pet store near you.
B.vagans freshly molted. Tarantula Forum
In this video I cover care, husbandry, molting and feeding for the Tliltocatl vagans (formerly Brachypelma vagans), also known as the Mexican Red Rump Tarant.
Mexican Redrumped Tarantula (Brachypelma vagans)
These two elements have so far favoured B. vagans by offering conditions suitable for the spread and settlement of local tarantula populations. Even though people control the expansion of local tarantula populations by killing many individuals (either for control purposes or for use in traditional medicine; Machkour-M'Rabet et al. 2011 ), the.
B.vagans female Arachnoboards
This feature earned the B. vagans the common name the Mexicaqn Red Rump Tarantula. Mexican Red Rump Tarantula can be found throughout Central America, they range from southern Mexico to Costa Rica (Mackhour et al. 2011 2).
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Tliltocatl vagans Common name: Mexican Redrump Indigenous: Central America, Mexico Habitat: savanna, scrubland Temp/humidity: 70 ° -85 ° (21.1 °-29.4°C) degrees/65%-80% humidity; I keep this species temperature at 80 ° (26.6 °C) and the humidity at 65-70%.
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Interesting Fact: In 1996, specimens of Tliltocatl vagans (then Brachypelma vagans) were discovered living in the wilds of St. Lucie, Florida. T. vagans is now considered an established non-native species although their numbers have been dwindling due to habitat loss and pesticide use.
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Tliltocatl vagans (synonym Brachypelma vagans) is a species of tarantula known commonly as the Mexican red rump.It ranges predominantly in Mexico (including the Yucatán Peninsula), but is also found in Central America. They are terrestrial, burrowing spiders.The reason for the name red rump is because of its distinctive red hairs on its abdomen.Like most tarantulas, they will eat anything.
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July 9, 2020 No Comments T. vagans is also known as the Mexican Red Rump. Formerly Brachypelma vagans it was recently reclassified as Tliltocatl vagans. Known for it's velvet black and red contrasting hairs as well as it's more docile nature. This scrub-land tarantula is extremely hardy.
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Biology Like most tarantulas, the biology of B. vagans is poorly known (Carter 1997). Adult females are 5.0-7.5 cm in body length, with a leg span up to 13.5 cm. Adult males are slightly shorter with a much smaller abdomen.
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The Mexican Red Rump (also known as the B.vagans) is a tarantula originally from Mexico but can be found in Guatemala and El Salvador. These tarantulas are very striking due to their jet black color and their dark red urticating hairs on their abdomen. Females tend to age as old as 15 years while a male age around 5 to 6 years.
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Don't confuse the Brachypelma kahlenbergi tarantula with the B. vagans or commonly known as the Mexican Red Rump. They're strikingly alike in appearance that people often mix them up. The New Mexican tarantula is also considerably smaller in size than the rest of the species in the genus.
Tliltocatl vagans / Brachypelma vagans (Mexican Red Rump) Care Sheet Jamie's Tarantula Blog
Mr. West confirmed that this species was B. vagans (personal communication 1996). He also noted that the species had been commonly imported into Miami since the early 1970s. Figure 1. Female Mexican redrump tarantula, Brachypelma vagans. Photograph by Jeffrey Lotz, Division of Plant Industry. Distribution (Back to Top)
B. Vagans or B. Albiceps? Arachnoboards
Tliltocatl vagans is a more tropical species than many closely related tarantulas like Mexican Red Knees and Mexican Red Legs. They are particularly found in parts of the Yucatan peninsula, but also in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and northeatern Costa Rica. Here they dig long burrows to protect themselves from the worst of the heat.
B. sabulosum? B. vagans? Arachnoboards
All data for the morphology of B. vagans were obtained from a total of 6 sites in four different states of southern Mexico (Table 1, Fig. 1).In Chiapas, we sampled 2 sites, El Castaño (CH-EC; 15°17′N, 92°58′W, 16 masl) near the Pacific coast, and in Frontera Corozal (CH-FC; 16°49′N, 90°53′W, 117 masl) in the Lacandona rainforest.In Campeche, we visited 1 site (11 de Mayo; C-11M.