Colombian and Venezuelan giants with a purple iridescent bloom across the carapace that does not photograph accurately in either direction. X. immanis and X. intermedia are the names that move.
Large, terrestrial, moderately fast growing, and generally calm for their size. They are also expensive, and understanding why is instructive: sac sizes are small relative to the animal, breeding is inconsistent, and the color that justifies the price does not appear until late in development.
That last point creates the widest sling-to-adult price spread of any genus on the site. A buyer purchasing a Xenesthis sling is paying a real sum for a small brown spider on the promise of what it becomes in three years, and a meaningful number of those animals get resold at a loss by people who ran out of patience.
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# PART 3: SPECIES BLURBS