- Also known as Panamanian Gold. In Panama, it is called araña cenisa, or “ash spider”.
- belindae is a patronym in honor of the author’s friend Belinda for her assistance in the field and lab.
- This New World Fossorial tarantula is only known to found east of the Panama canal. It is perhaps the southernmost member of this genus.
- The adult size for males is 4.75" - 5.12" and for females is 5.12" - 5.51".
- The color description from the original paper (Gabriel, 2011): Carapace, caput and chelicerae dark charcoal grey, edges of carapace, dorsal trochanters and coxae grey with longer copper/pink hairs, some copper/pink hairs forming a vague radial pattern on carapace, femurs of all legs and palp darker than carapace with dorsal copper/pink iridescent covering of short hairs. Dorsal patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus of all legs and palp grey with apical white bands sometimes broken medially, with scattered longer copper/pink hairs, ventrally dark, dorsal abdomen with black patch of type I urticating hairs covering majority of abdomen interspersed with scattered longer copper/pink hairs similar to that on carapace, trochanters, coxae and femurs of legs and palp, ventral and lateral aspects grey lacking longer hairs.
- They are reported to be one of the more skittish Aphonopelma.
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- belindae is a patronym in honor of the author’s friend Belinda for her assistance in the field and lab.
- This New World Fossorial tarantula is only known to found east of the Panama canal. It is perhaps the southernmost member of this genus.
- The adult size for males is 4.75" - 5.12" and for females is 5.12" - 5.51".
- The color description from the original paper (Gabriel, 2011): Carapace, caput and chelicerae dark charcoal grey, edges of carapace, dorsal trochanters and coxae grey with longer copper/pink hairs, some copper/pink hairs forming a vague radial pattern on carapace, femurs of all legs and palp darker than carapace with dorsal copper/pink iridescent covering of short hairs. Dorsal patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus of all legs and palp grey with apical white bands sometimes broken medially, with scattered longer copper/pink hairs, ventrally dark, dorsal abdomen with black patch of type I urticating hairs covering majority of abdomen interspersed with scattered longer copper/pink hairs similar to that on carapace, trochanters, coxae and femurs of legs and palp, ventral and lateral aspects grey lacking longer hairs.
- They are reported to be one of the more skittish Aphonopelma.
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