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title: "Pinktoe Tarantula"
description: "Avicularia avicularia — Insetti e ragni. Avicularia avicularia, sometimes called the pinktoe tarantula, is a species of tarantula native to Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/pinktoe-tarantula
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Pinktoe Tarantula

> Avicularia avicularia — Insetti e ragni. Avicularia avicularia, sometimes called the pinktoe tarantula, is a species of tarantula native to Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

- Scientific name: *Avicularia avicularia*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `zoo` (Zoo e animali domestici), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 2580
- Wikidata: [Q181170](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181170)
- iNaturalist taxon: [196673](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/196673)

## Names

- en: Pinktoe Tarantula
- de: Gemeine Vogelspinne
- es: Tarántula de Patas Rosadas
- fr: Matoutou
- nl: Amazone-roodteenvogelspin
- pl: Ptasznik zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

GF (883), BR (428), PE (292), TT (257), SR (188), BO (136), GY (55), VE (50)

## Summary

Avicularia avicularia, sometimes called the pinktoe tarantula, is a species of tarantula native to Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. This species is sometimes called the Guyana pinktoe, or South American pinktoe.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicularia_avicularia

## Photo

![Pinktoe Tarantula](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pinktoe-tarantula/medium.jpg)

Photo: Soetjipto Verkuijl · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/300367660

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pinktoe-tarantula?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).