Parabuthus villosus orange sexing

[BoyFromLA]

When searched for:



Only a handful could be searched, from that list, below, the post by @ArachnoDrew was helpful to get some decent idea how to sex males apart from females.



Now, I currently am keeping three, unsexed that I would like to be confirmed.

My initial take (with the information I got from above source) is:

1. Female
2. Female
3. Male

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[Richard McJimsey]

The easiest way to sex Parabuthus is via the pectines. Not by pectine count, like many people use, but via the morphology of the basal middle lamella.
See attached photo (sourced from FaceBook).

Parabuthus are also sexually dimorphic in the ways you have mentioned. Based on chela, I would agree with 1.2

 

[BoyFromLA]

Thank you @Richard McJimsey for the insights!