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Heterothele villosella

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🌍Old World Terrestrial 🐜Dwarf 🟡Skittish ⚠️Intermediate 🌴Tropical

An Old World terrestrial tarantula. Skittish and fast, and generally recommended for intermediate keepers. Market price is $40, with 21 live listings across 16 sellers and a lowest ask of $10.

A dwarf old world, which is a rare combination, and one of the few tarantulas that reliably tolerates communal housing.

Under two inches, heavy webbing, fossorial tendencies, and fast enough to be a handful during rehousing despite the size. Old world so no urticating hairs, but the venom is not a serious concern at this scale and the temperament is more skittish than defensive.

Lowest Ask
$10
best value listed now
Market Price
$40
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$10
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$10–$185
low to high
Live Listings
21
at 16 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 22 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 2 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 1253 listings / 90d · 22 vendors ever
$10 all-time low best value now: $10 $185 all-time high
Price History — asking prices; a time trend appears as daily crawls accumulate
Each dot = one listing: Female Male Unsexed | – – all-time low – – market price best value now (hover the chart for price · size · sex · vendor · date) (drag across the chart to read any day)
Available Now — 21 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
FangzTV 💎💎
$10 $59 landed
Cory's Creatures 💎💎
$15 $65 landed
Hardcore Arachnids 💎💎
$20 $70 landed
Buddha Bugs 💎💎
$20 ❓ shipping
Wonderland Exotics 💎💎
$25 ❓ shipping
ArachnoEden 👍
$25 ❓ shipping
0.5-0.625" U CB View listing
Spider Shoppe 👍
$26 ❓ shipping
One Love Tarantulas
$30 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics
$35 $85 landed
V Exotic
$40 $90 landed
The Spider Room 👍
$40 $100 landed
Great Basin Serpentarium 👍
$42 $107 landed
0.75-1.0" U CB View listing
Exotics Unlimited USA
$45 $84 landed
Spider Shoppe
$46 ❓ shipping
Midwest Exotics 👍
$48 ❓ shipping
The Mother of Spiders
$50 ❓ shipping
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$55 $94 landed
Spider Shoppe 👍
$78 ❓ shipping
1.5-2.0" View listing
8 Paws Tarantulas
$95 $145 landed
1.5-2.0" View listing
The Mother of Spiders
$100 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics
$140 $190 landed
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
FangzTV 0.33" U CB° $10.00 -62% $49 $59 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Cory's Creatures 0.33" U CB° $15.00 -42% $50 $65 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Hardcore Arachnids 1/4" U CB° $20.00 -23% $50 $70 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Buddha Bugs 0.33" U CB° $20.00 -23% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics 3/4" U CB° $25.00 -39% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 0.5-0.625" U CB° $25.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe 0.25" U CB° $26.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
One Love Tarantulas 1/4" U CB° $30.00 +15% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 0.5" U CB° $34.99 +35% $50 $85 👎 1/10 Buy →
V Exotic Sling U CB° $40.00 +54% $50 $90 👎 1/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1" U CB° $40.00 $60 $100 👍 1/10 Buy →
Great Basin Serpentarium 0.75-1.0" U CB° $42.00 $65 $107 👍 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.5" U CB° $45.00 +73% $39 $84 👎 1/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe 1.5" U ? $46.00 +12% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Midwest Exotics ? U ? $48.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 1.0" U ? $50.00 +22% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA ? ? CB° $55.00 $39 $94 👍 2/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe 1.5-2.0" ? $78.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
8 Paws Tarantulas 1.5-2.0" ? $95.00 +22% $50 $145 👎 1/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 2.0" ? $100.00 +28% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 2.0" ? $139.99 +79% $50 $190 👎 1/10 Buy →
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How these numbers are worked out — market price, deal grades, and what they do not mean

Market price is a trimmed median of recent asks for a species — the highest and lowest are dropped before the middle is taken, so one unusual listing cannot move it. Below four asks there is nothing safe to trim, so it is a plain median.

A deal grade compares like with like. A listing is scored against others of the same species, same sex group and same size bucket — never against the species as a whole. A 1" unsexed sling and a 5" confirmed female are different markets, and blending them is how a fair price starts looking like a bargain.

Graded against history, not against today's shelf. The comparison is every ask ever recorded for that group, counted once per listing rather than once per day it sat unsold. Grading against whatever happens to be in stock right now would let a single low-priced arrival drag the median down and re-grade every other seller — a race to the bottom, which is not something a price tracker should cause. Where there is not yet enough history, the live listings are used and the page says so.

The badges:

  • 💎💎 at least 40% below that comparable median — or 20% below and also an all-time low.
  • 💎 20–40% below.
  • 👍 within about 10% of it.
  • 👎 more than 10% above.

Those thresholds are deliberately wide. The same animal at the same size routinely spans about 2× between the lowest and highest seller, so "20% below average" describes an ordinary listing rather than a find.

What these numbers are not. FangTrack sees asks, never sales — nothing here is a record of what anything sold for. A small number of sellers who specialise in premium display specimens are excluded from the calculated figures because their asks are not representative; their listings still appear. Private collection uploads never affect any public number. Shipping estimates are the vendor's stated flat rate added to the ask, not a checkout total.

A grade is information, not advice. Condition, provenance and how well a seller packs a live animal are worth more than a few dollars, and none of them are in the price. More on how this is calculated →