[citation needed] The Mexican redleg, also known as the red-legged tarantula, has a dark-colored body with the second joint of its legs being pink, red or orange.

An adult female has a body roughly 65 mm long, with a legspan of 12.5 cm, and a weight of approximately 15 to 16 grams.

Body brown, with longish, scattered red hairs, which are deeper in hue than on the other parts.

[4] Nevertheless, large numbers of tarantulas caught in the wild continue to be smuggled out of Mexico, including species of Brachypelma.

[citation needed] It was first described in 1856 by Scottish zoologist Adam White as Mygale Emilia,[3][1] but in 1891 Eugene Simon transferred it to the new genus, Brachypelma, making B .emilia the type species.