Whompyjawed
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2009
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- 19
I just acquired a tailless whip scorpion and would like to know how to tell it's gender. I can't find a lot of info about these guys. Can you guys help me?
right, sorry. but since it is a D. diadema i was not wholly incorrect.this is a male Damon diadema.
and it is not true, that ALL whip spiders shown this sexual morphological dimorphismus in elongated pedipalps, just a handfull, like D.diadema, D.medius, Heterophrynus longicornis, some Sarax spp., Phrynichus deferlsi, P.ceyclonicus, etc. but NOT ALL.
Hey, while I was waiting for an answer from these guys, I found a thread with a side by side comparison photo. of the underbelly Here: http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=107187i have 3 of these guys myself..and id love to know how to sex them, my smallest one is maybe the size of a quarter and my biggest is maybe 3.5"....could someone post male and female pics for me, in the research ive done they say that the chelae is how you tell, but mine are small and its all about the same size right now... or (without being scolded about using the search function) can someone post a link in here about sexing these guys so that we can all use it?
Here is a pic I just took tonight of a female Phrynus barbadensis where the males and females have similarly proportioned pedipalps and everything else really....
Ta Da! :clap:
She is adult, produced eggs some months ago, and frankly is so big for her species I really did not expect her to molt/grow any further. Guess I was mistaken!