ENVIRONMENT
Core care conditions
Use these ranges as a starting point and adjust for life stage, enclosure ventilation and observed behaviour.
HUSBANDRY OVERVIEW
At a glance
- Origin
- Brazil / Peru
- Lifestyle
- Arboreal
- Adult size
- 18-20cm
- Temperament
- Skittish / generally calm
- Experience level
- Beginner+
- Visibility
- Often visible around webbed retreats
- Burrowing
- Arboreal webber; provide vertical cork and foliage
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Urticating hairs
- Yes
- Venom
- Mild
CARE NOTES
Keeping considerations
A rather unique and beautiful large-sized Avicularia species. They are a deep iridescent purple with long bright pink tufts of hair on the abdomen. They are also covered in long white bristle like A.urticans. Whether this is a new species or a regional variation of an existing species is unknown. Either way they are a very distinct population
SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the references
Care can vary by species, life stage and local conditions. Review multiple reputable sources before making husbandry decisions.
KEEP EXPLORING
More Avicularia
Other catalogue species from the same scientific genus.
