Smithi or hamorii?
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Smithi or hamorii?

What is the size of the specimen? It looks to be B. hamorii as B. hamorii are classified by having chelicerae banding which B. smithi do not according to the revision by Francke and Mendoza. If it's female, you could use their spermathecae on their molts to identify them as well, as the baseplate spermathecae are different in terms of shape and height from the two species. But you should read the paper yourself as it has a lot of useful information.
 

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