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title: "Texas Brown Tarantula"
description: "Aphonopelma hentzi — Insetti e ragni. The Texas brown tarantula, Aphonopelma hentzi, also known as the Oklahoma brown tarantula or Missouri tarantula, is one of the most common species of tarantula living in the Southern United States today."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/texas-brown-tarantula
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Texas Brown Tarantula

> Aphonopelma hentzi — Insetti e ragni. The Texas brown tarantula, Aphonopelma hentzi, also known as the Oklahoma brown tarantula or Missouri tarantula, is one of the most common species of tarantula living in the Southern United States today.

- Scientific name: *Aphonopelma hentzi*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 11467
- Wikidata: [Q1308312](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1308312)
- iNaturalist taxon: [120596](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120596)

## Names

- en: Texas Brown Tarantula
- es: Tarántula café chocolate

## Countries with the most observations

US (8957), MX (62)

## Summary

The Texas brown tarantula, Aphonopelma hentzi, also known as the Oklahoma brown tarantula or Missouri tarantula, is one of the most common species of tarantula living in the Southern United States today. Texas brown tarantulas can grow to leg spans in excess of 10 cm (4 in), and weigh more than 85 g (3 oz) as adults. Their bodies are dark brown, though shades may vary between individual tarantulas. The colors are more distinct after a molt, as with many arthropods. Males develop black legs with a copper colored carapace. Immature and males come in many shades of brown with considerable variation in greys and reds.

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

## Photo

![Texas Brown Tarantula](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/texas-brown-tarantula/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ethan Wright-Magoon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99900667

## Machine access

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