AKA: Haplocosmia himalayana, Himalayan banded Earthtiger or the Himalayan purple-banded earth tiger tarantula
 
Experience: Intermediate
 
Growth Rate: Medium
 
Type: Obligate Fossorial
 
Venom: Medically significant
 
Urticating Hairs: Yes
 
Adult Size: DLS  up to 6"
 
Expected Life Span: Females- up to 16 yrs
                                          Males- up to 5 yrs
 
Temperature: 78°F - 82°F is ideal
 
Humidity: 65%
 
Natural Origins: mountainous regions of Nepal and India
 
 
Substrate: A Peat moss and coco fiber mixture with added clumps of sphagnum moss and some vermiculite help keep humidity up. 5-7" of Substrate should suffice but more wouldn't hurt.
 
Diet:
 
Sling (1/4"-1")
Sm. crickets, or Sm. Dubia 2x a week.
 
Sub-Adult(1-3")
3-4 medium crickets, Md. Dubia every 7-10 days
 
Adult(4"+)
3 or 4 large Dubia roaches every other week or about a dozen crickets every 2 to 3 weeks
 
As an Adult, you can mix up the diet with Red Runner Roaches, Superworms, and even Horned Worms as a rare treat as they are more fatty than nutritional.
 
Sexing:
 
Extra Info. : Are heavy webbers, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1899.
"Haplocosmia himalayana (Pocock, 1899)". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^ a b c d Husain, Akhlaq (2020). "New Record of Himalayan Earth Tiger Tarantula Haplocosmia himalayana (Pocock, 1899) (Arachnida : Araneae : Theraphosidae) from Rajpur, Dehra Dun (Uttarakhand) with its Taxo-morphology, Distribution and Pest Controlling" (PDF). Research Trend. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
Adult photo credit: Jacob Huff