Davus pentaloris

Davus pentaloris is a tarantula that is long misidentified in the hobby as Cyclosternum fasciatus. In reality this tarantula can be easily distinguished by the dorso-medial abdominal pattern and orange carapace. Native to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico it inhabits lowland forests where it lives at the ground level under logs and rocks. It is fairly humid and temperatures vary between 20 and 27 degrees celcius.

This tarantula is attractively coloured with a black and orange striped abdomen, orange carapace and black legs. The abdomen also sometimes has a spot in the dorso-medial area but this can vary.

Spiderlings and adults have the same colouration and there is not colour sexual dimorphism. A fast growing species, well fed specimens can be mature within a few years.

Whilst not defensive, this species is skittish and essentially b*stard rapid.

They are good feeders and care should be taken not to overfeed them.

They are the perfect intermediate species of tarantula (so we think anyway)

Keep these slings in our spiderling boxes and feed micro crickets