I bought this T from a pet shop who had it labelled as a Mexican Fire Red. Being fairly new to T's at the time, I did not bother to ask the scientific name and assumed it was a Mexican Fire Leg (B. boehmei).

Is there any way I can identify it correctly? I am leaning towards the L. difficilis (Brazilian Fire Red) rather than the B. albopilosum (Curly Hair) since this is closer to the name I bought it under and the petshop did have Curly Hair slings there at the time too, labeled as such.

The T is now about 6-8cm legspan at the moment, grown from around a 0.5cm sling in around August of 2009. The best picture I have of it is below. I will try to take a better picture tonight but the T is highly skittish and hides in it's burrow as soon as I even touch the enclosure.

Any thoughts/help with identifying will be highly appreciated. I would love for it to turn out to be a Lasisodora difficilis!

The pick is very blurry mate

Yip blury pic!

But it looks like it has red hairs on abdomen! so ill leen towards L difficilis

Yea same here Fangs.

fangs wrote:

Yip blury pic!

But it looks like it has red hairs on abdomen! so ill leen towards L difficilis

I will try to take a better picture tonight if the T is willing to co-operate

The hairs on the abdomen appear to be red/dark orange immediately after a moult (L. difficilis), but these lighten as the T gets closer and closer to moulting again. At the moment they appear to be dark blonde/brown (B. albopilosum) which is why I can't tell what it is!

Also, it doesn't appear to have the "whitish" leg segments that I see on some of the L. difficilis pictures around the net. This is one surprise T! :silly:

Let's see if I can get a better picture and take it from there.

Yeah a little blurry but it might be a L.klugi.