Amazing camouflage of Indian Ornamental Tree Spider (P. regalis) [Inferion7]

Pocock (1899) - India

Class
Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order
Araneae (Spiders)

Family
Theraphosidae (Tarantulas)

Subfamily
Poecilotheriinae

Genus
Poecilotheria (Pokies)

Species
P. regalis (Indian Ornamental Tree Spider)

This is my second video about Poecilotheria regalis. In this video you can see it eating (not feeding) and also its amazing camouflage and yellow warning colors. This species is my the most favorite one. Once I handled it but it’s quite fast and you never know what it’s going to do, but I don’t think it would bite me for no reason. Now it’s L7-L8 probably and I don’t know if it’s a male or female. But after it molts I’ll use my microscope to look closely to the exuvie (molt). If it sits on the cork bark it’s hard to recognize that there is some spider, its camouflage is brilliant – you probably wouldn’t see it if I haven’t shown it to you. Another amazing thing is its insensive yellow color on its legs and also the white stripe proving it’s regalis and not other pokies.

Name "Poecilotheria" means spotted wild beast. Name "regalis" means royal. There are currently 14 species of Poecilotheria (World Spider Catalog. 23.11.2015): fasciata, formosa, hanumavilasumica, metallica, miranda, ornata, rajaei, regalis, rufilata, smithi, striata, subfusca, tigrinawesseli and vittata.

Here is the list of common names:

Poecilotheria regalis (lat.)
Indian Ornamental Tree Spider
Indian Ornamental

I've been playing on piano since July 2012 and breeding tarantulas since October 2012.

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