King baboon spider

King baboon spider
adult female P. muticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Pelinobius
Species:	P. muticus
Binomial name
Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885
Synonyms
Citharischius crawshayi Pocock, 1900 Citharischius crawshagi (lapsus)

The King baboon spider (Pelinobius muticus) is a tarantula species native to East Africa. The King baboon spider can grow up to 20 cm in leg span. It is a slow growing species. The spider is often rusty brown or orange in colour. As a burrowing species, the back legs are very thick and used for digging burrows. It is popular among tarantula collectors but is highly aggressive and not suitable for beginners. They also have very strong venom (although none of the tarantulas is known to have a bite that is deadly to humans); a bite from a baby (1 cm body length) of this species caused sharp pain and strong hallucinations and the place of the bite remained itchy for five days.^[1]

Housing

Adult Pelinobius muticus can be kept in converted aquarium and provided with plenty of ventilation and a very deep substrate (at least 25 cm deep). Spiderlings can be kept in small containers such as pill tubs and waxworm tubs slightly larger species can be kept in livefood tubs.

References

1. ^ Klátil, L., Sklípkani, Zlín 1998, p. 37 and 40

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Caring for your King Baboon Tarantula

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