Endangered
Poecilotheria formosa
Poecilotheria formosa
Poecilotheria formosa is a spider in the family Theraphosidae (order Araneae), recorded as Endangered.
The spider
Spiders are eight-legged predators that inject venom through fangs. A named species may be known from one cave or one island.
Arachnids are eight-legged arthropods: spiders, mites, and their kin.
Range and habitat
P. Formosa is found only in South-Eastern Ghats between Salem and Tirupathi in southern India. The population is decreasing due to habitat loss and pet trade.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Poecilotheria formosa is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Poecilotheria formosa — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2794012. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
