The original record places this Ecuadorian tarantula in Theraphosinae but does not identify a genus or species. This revision keeps that limit visible and avoids applying one habitat or care profile to an entire subfamily.
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This captive-bred tarantula came to us as an unidentified animal from Ecuador. Its genus and species have not been established, so this page records what we know without turning a tentative idea into a taxonomic claim.
An adult male and a juvenile photographed separately in Ecuador in 2018 and provisionally identified as Avicularia hirschii.