The Documented List → Spermathecae Gallery

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The species, described and undescribed, I have photographed and documented for the Spermathecae Gallery will be listed below. This list will be alphabetized and listed numerically. 

If you do not see a species listed below that you keep or have access to exuviae from, please reach out and follow the instructions of How to Ship Exuviae.

  1. Acanthoscurria geniculata (C.L. Koch, 1841) — Brazilian Whiteknee Tarantula

  2. Aphonopelma anax (Chamberlin, 1940) — Texas Tan Tarantula

  3. Aphonopelma armada (Chamberlin, 1940) — Texas Black Spot Tarantula

  4. Aphonopelma caniceps (Simon, 1891) — Mexican Black Tarantula

  5. Aphonopelma chalcodes (Chamberlin, 1940 — Arizona Blonde Tarantula

  6. Aphonopelma eutylenum (Chamberlin, 1940) — California Ebony Tarantula

  7. Aphonopelma gabeli (Smith, 1995) — Chiricahuan Gray Tarantula

  8. Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852) — Oklahoma/Texas Brown Tarantula

  9. Aphonopelma iodius (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) — Desert Tarantula

  10. Aphonopelma johnnycashi (Hamilton, 2016) — Folsom Brown Tarantula

  11. Aphonopelma madera (Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016) — Madera Canyon Tarantula

  12. Aphonopelma moderatum (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) — Rio Grande Gold Tarantula

  13. Aphonopelma moellendorfi (Hamilton, 2016) — Moellendorf Tarantula

  14. Aphonopelma paloma (Prentice, 1993) — Paloma Dwarf Tarantula

  15. Aphonopelma prenticei (Hamilton, Hendrixson, & Bond, 2016) — Prentice’s Dwarf Tarantula

  16. Aphonopelma seemanni (F.O.P-Cambridge, 1897) — Striped-Knee Tarantula

  17. Aphonopelma sp. ‘White’

  18. Aphonopelma sp. ‘Bosque Primavera’

  19. Aphonopelma sp. ‘Diamondback’

  20. Aphonopelma steindachneri (Ausserer, 1875) — Steindachner’s Ebony Tarantula

  21. Aphonopelma vorhiesi (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) — Madrean Red Rump Tarantula

  22. Amazonius germani (Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022) — Orange Tree Spider Tarantula

  23. Aspinochilus rufus (Müller, Fardiansah, Schneider, Wanke, von Wirth & Wendt, 2024) — Peach Earth Tiger Tarantula

  24. Augacehpalus breyeri (Hewitt, 1919) — Lowveld Golden-brown Baboon Tarantula

  25. Augacephalus ezendami (Gallon, 2001) — Mozambique Golden Baboon Tarantula

  26. Avicularia huriana (Tesmoingt, 1996) — Ecuadorian Wooly Pinktoe Tarantula

  27. Avicularia lynnae (Fukushima & Bertani, 2017) — West’s Black Stripe Pinktoe Tarantula

  28. Avicularia metallica (Fukushima & Bertani, 2017) — Metallic Pinktoe Tarantula

  29. Bonnetina cyaneifemur (Vol, 2000) — Mexican Blue Femur Tarantula

  30. Brachypelma emilia (White, 1856) — Mexican Redleg Tarantula

  31. Caribena versicolor (Walckenaer, 1837) — Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula

  32. Ceratogyrus brachycephalus (Hewitt, 1919) — Greater Horned Baboon Tarantula

  33. Ceratogyrus darlingi (Pocock, 1897) — Rear Horned Baboon Tarantula

  34. Ceratogyrus marshalli (Pocock, 1897) — Straight Horned Baboon Tarantula

  35. Ceratogyrus sanderi (Strand, 1906) — Namibia Horned Baboon Tarantula

  36. Chilobrachys fimbriatus (Pocock, 1899) — Indian Violet Earth Tiger Tarantula

  37. Chilobrachys natanicharum (Chomphuphuang, Sippawat, Sriranan, Piyatrakulchai & Songsangchote, 2023) — Electric Blue Tarantula

  38. Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) — Greenbottle Blue Tarantula

  39. Davus pentaloris (Simon, 1888) — Guatemalan Tiger Rump Tarantula

  40. Davus sp. ‘Mazunte’

  41. Dolichothele diamantinensis (Bertani, Santos & Righi, 2009) — Brazilian Blue Dwarf Beauty Tarantula

  42. Encyocratella olivacea (Strand, 1907) — Tanzanian Black & Olive Baboon Tarantula

  43. Ephebopus cyanognathus (West & Marshall, 2000) — Blue Fang Tarantula

  44. Euathlus sp. ‘Tigre Costera’

  45. Eucratoscelus pachypus (Schmidt & Von Wirth, 1990) — Stout Leg Baboon Tarantula

  46. Ewok cyaneolus (Sherwood et al., 2025) — Cobalt Red Rump Tarantula

  47. Grammostola anthracina (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Brazilian Giant Tawny Red Tarantula

  48. Grammostola pulchra (Mello-Leitao, 1921) — Brazilian Black Tarantula

  49. Grammostola pulchripes (Simon, 1892) — Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula

  50. Grammostola rosea (Walckenaer, 1837) — Chilean Rose Tarantula

  51. Hapalopus sp. ‘Colombia Klein’

  52. Harpactira baviana (Purcell, 1903) — Purcell’s Baboon Tarantula

  53. Harpcatira cafreriana (Walckenaer, 1837) — Amber Baboon Tarantula

  54. Harpactira dictator (Purcell, 1902) — Dictator Baboon Tarantula

  55. Harpactira marksi (Purcell, 1902) — Elizabethfontein Baboon Tarantula

  56. Harpactira namaquensis (Purcell, 1902) — Bronze Baboon Tarantula

  57. Harpactira pulchripes (Pocock, 1901) — Golden Blue Leg Baboon Tarantula

  58. Harpactira sp. ‘Silaka’

  59. Harpactirella overdijki (Gallon, 2010) — Overdijk’s Lesser Baboon Tarantula

  60. Homoeomma chilense (Montenegro & Aguilera, 2018) — Chilean Flame Tarantula

  61. Idiothele mira (Gallon, 2010) — Blue-Foot Baboon Tarantula

  62. Lasiodora klugi (C.L. Koch, 1841) — Bahia Scarlet Tarantula

  63. Monocentropus balfouri (Pocock, 1897) — Socotra Island Blue Baboon Tarantula

  64. Neischnocolus mecana (Echeverri, Gomez Torres, Pinel & Perafan, 2023)

  65. Neoholothele fasciaaurinigra (Guadanucci & Weinmann, 2015) — Columbian Bumblebee Tarantula

  66. Neoholothele incei (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — Trinidad Olive Tarantula

  67. Nhandu coloratovillosus (Schmidt, 1998) — Brazilian Black & White Tarantula

  68. Nhandu tripepii (Dresco, 1984) — Brazilian Giant Blonde Tarantula

  69. Omothymus violaceopes (Abraham, 1924) — Singapore Blue Tarantula

  70. Omothymus sp. ‘Langkawi’

  71. Omothymus sp. ‘Valhalla’

  72. Ornithoctoninae sp. ‘Vietnam Silver’

  73. Ornithoctonus sp. ‘Uthai Thani’

  74. Pamphobeteus sp. ‘Magna’

  75. Phlogius sp. ‘Black’

  76. Phormictopus auratus (Ortiz & Bertani, 2005) — Cuban Bronze Tarantula

  77. Phormictopus cautus (Ausserer, 1875) — Cuban Purple Tarantula

  78. Phormictopus sp. ‘Dominican Purple’

  79. Poecilotheria formosa (Pocock, 1899) — Salem Ornamental Tarantula

  80. Poecilotheria metallica (Pocock, 1899) — Gooty Sapphire Tarantula

  81. Poecilotheria miranda (Pocock, 1900) — Bengal Ornamental Tarantula

  82. Poecilotheria regalis (Pocock, 1899) — Indian Ornamental Tarantula

  83. Poecilotheria rufilata (Pocock, 1899) — Red Slate Ornamental Tarantula

  84. Poecilotheria subfusca (Pocock, 1895) — Ivory Ornamental Tarantula

  85. Poecilotheria subfusca ‘Pascal Lesellier’

  86. Poecilotheria vittata (Pocock, 1895) — Ghost Ornamental Tarantula

  87. Psalmopoeus cambridgei (Pocock, 1895) — Trinidad Chevron Tarantula

  88. Psalmopoeus ecclestiasticus (Pocock, 1903) — Ecuador Olive Tree Spider Tarantula

  89. Psalmopoeus emeraldus (Pocock, 1903) — Emerald Chevron Tarantula

  90. Psalmopoeus victori (Mendoza, 2014) — Darth Maul Tarantula

  91. Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstacker, 1873) — Kilimanjaro Mustard Baboon Tarantula

  92. Pterinochilus lugardi (Pocock, 1900) — Fort Hall Baboon Tarantula

  93. Pterinochilus murinus (Pocock, 1897) — Orange Baboon Tarantula

  94. Stromatopelma calceatum (Fabricius, 1793) — Featherleg Baboon Tarantula

  95. Taksinus bambus (Songsangchote, Sippawat, Khaikaew & Chomphuphuang, 2022) — Thai Bamboo Tarantula

  96. Tapinauchenius violaceus (Mello-Leitão, 1930) — Purple Tree Spider Tarantula

  97. Tapinauchenius sp. ‘Casanare’

  98. Thrixopelma ockerti (Schmidt, 1994) — Peruvian Red-Rump Tarantula

  99. Tliltocatl albopilosus (Valerio, 1980) — Curly Hair Tarantula

  100. Tliltocatl vagans (Ausserer, 1875) — Mexican Red Rump Tarantula

  101. Typhochlaena seladonia (Koch, 1841) — Brazilian Jewel Tarantula

  102. Urupelma sp. ‘Mishana’

  103. Warmiru longicolli (Schmidt, 2003) — Peruvian Blue Zebra Tarantula

  104. Xenesthis intermedia (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) — Amazon Blue Bloom Tarantula

  105. Xenesthis sp. ‘White LL’

  106. Ybyrapora diversipes (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Amazon Sapphire Pinktoe Tarantula

  107. Ybyrapora sooretama (Bertani & Fukushima, 2009) — Amazon Purple Sapphire Tarantula

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