greenbottle blue tarantula

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Greenbottle blue tarantula

| taxon = Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

| image = (MHNT) Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens - Venezuela - Female.jpg

| image_caption = Adult female

| image2 = Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens spiderling.jpg

| image2_caption = Juvenile

| status =

| status_system =

| authority = (Strand, 1907)

| parent_authority = Schmidt, 1995

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Chromatopelma is a monotypic genus of South American tarantulas containing the single species, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chromatopelma Schmidt, 1995| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-01-31| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3337| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}} Commonly known as greenbottle blue tarantulas due to their metallic blue legs and blue-green carapace, they are very active and fast-growing tarantulas that are particularly attractive to hobbyists. They are native to the Paraguaná Peninsula.{{Cite web|url=http://www.minec.gob.ve/la-tarantula-azul-es-una-especie-endemica-de-falcon/|title=La tarántula azul es una especie endémica de Falcón|access-date=2 March 2021|website=Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Ecosocialismo|lang=es-VE}}

They live in webbed burrows under bushes and tree roots{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1pnZHGawJy0C&pg=PA402 |page=402 |title=Venezuela: The Bradt Travel Guide |author=Russell Maddicks |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |year=2011|isbn=978-1-84162-299-6 }} in desert areas of northern Venezuela. The entrance is often extended with webbing, sometimes resembling a funnel shape. These webs may protect the entrance from the harsh desert climate and act as a trap for insects. Their diet can consist of many things. These include crickets, cockroaches and also worms.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

In 2013, Venezuelan scientists announced that greenbottle blue tarantulas were threatened by overgrazing that is destroying their habitat.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Fumigation of cultivated land has also caused the migration of the species towards the Montecano Biological Reserve and the Cerro Santa Ana Natural Monument.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} In 2015 it was listed as an endangered species of Venezuela.{{cite book|editor-last1= Rodríguez|editor-first1=J.P.|editor-last2=García-Rawlins|editor-first2=A.|editor-last3=Rojas-Suárez|editor-first3=F.

|year=2015|title=Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana|edition=Fourth|publisher=Provita y Fundación Empresas Polar|location=Caracas, Venezuela|language=es

|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322477966|page=10|isbn=978-980-6774-07-0|via=ResearchGate|access-date=16 October 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.especiesamenazadas.org/taxon/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/theraphosidae/chromatopelma/tarantula-azul-de-paraguana|title=Tarántula azul de Paraguaná, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens|last=Colmenares|first=P.|editor-last1=Rodríguez|editor-first1=J.P.|editor-last2=García-Rawlins|editor-first2=A.|editor-last3=Rojas-Suárez|editor-first3=F.|website=Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana|edition=Fourth|language=es|access-date=16 October 2024|year=2015|publisher=Provita y Fundación Empresas Polar|location=Caracas, Venezuela}}