Hey guys,

For those of you who have Haplopelma minax please change your labels to Haplopelma sp "Big Black"

Here is a picture of the real Haplopelma minax (Thailand Black)

Please check your specimens.

WHY?

This species has long been known in the pet trade as Haplopelma minax. But it is an unidentified species, which is quite common around the border of eastern Thailand to western Cambodia. These are dark brown/black and distinct abdominal pattern, with a leg span of 15 cm.

Quoted from Stefan Phalagorn from Theraphosids of Southeast Asia

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Determined as the real H. minax by Volker von Wirth in the sense of the type of H. minax, which also fits to the locality. This is not the same species as the H. sp. "minax" in the hobby/pet trade.

Here are the different pictures :

The real Haplopelma minax



The hobby form Haplopelma sp "Minax" / "Big Black"



Photos courtesy of Stefan Phalagorn Bergström