Green Bottle Blue Tarantula
Common Name: Green Bottle Blue Tarantula Scientific Name: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Order: Araneae
Range: This colorful species hails from Venezuela, along the Paraguara River.
Diet: It feeds on large invertebrates and small vertebrates such as lizards and mice.
Reader Rail Information: The blue legs, metallic green carapace (protetive shell of the cephalothorax) and bright orange abdominal hairs make these animals easy to identify and probably serve as a warning to potential attackers. This tarantula is found in webbing around the bases of grass clumps in dry forest. Like most New World species, it readily flings (throws) abdominal hairs for defense and is thought to be closely related to the arboreal (tree inhabiting) pinktoe tarantulas.
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