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Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula

Poecilotheria metallica

Poecilotheria metallica is an Old World species of tarantula. It is the only blue species of the Poecilotheria genus. Like others in its genus it exhibits an intricate fractal-like pattern on the abdomen. The species' natural habitat is deciduous forest in Andhra Pradesh, in central southern India.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 109921.