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Yes! Caribena Versicolor. I wasn’t sure re: accessory organs since they’re horizontally configured rather than vertical?
Accessory organs usually look like 2 little dots on either side of a gonopore, like this: ._. Avicularinae (including Caribena) have some very interesting spermathecae - often long enough to cross over each other and sometimes even curly!
 
Accessory organs usually look like 2 little dots on either side of a gonopore, like this: ._. Avicularinae (including Caribena) have some very interesting spermathecae - often long enough to cross over each other and sometimes even curly!
I’m moderately confident my OBT and T. Albo are male based on that description, which is a bummer! But such is life 😆 I’m crazy lucky to have ended up with 4 confirmed females out of 6 Ts large enough to sex!
 

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