Hourglass Trapdoor Spider (full size)

True Spiders / Huntsmans

MOQ 20 head

Partners Only

4 – 5 cm legspan (body ~3 cm)

Mild venom — a ctenizid trapdoor spider; bite causes only minor local pain and is not medically significant. Defensive but very reluctant to bite.

Shaded ravine and riverbank slopes of southern China (Guangxi, Yunnan) and northern Vietnam (Vinh Phuc, Ninh Binh). Lives in a silk-lined burrow sealed by its hardened, disc-shaped abdomen (phragmosis).

Ground insects ambushed at the burrow entrance. Nocturnal sit-and-wait predator.

22 – 27 °C ambient — 20 °C cool end

70 – 80 %. Keep substrate lightly moist with a drier surface; good ventilation.

None required (nocturnal, fossorial).

Crickets and roach nymphs near the burrow. Every 7 – 10 days.

Fossorial: 12 – 18 cm of firm packed substrate for a permanent lined, plugged burrow. Min 20 × 20 cm, kept undisturbed.

Extremely shy; retreats and seals the burrow with its abdominal disc. Hardy display burrower, not a handling species.