@KezyGLA How can you tell it is a male? I've been looking around on the forums and with Google, but I never found anything useful that was not contradicted by another thread.
I feel like I'm having difficulty finding the "dot" in male poecs. Is it the area between the top booklungs that is outlined by a horseshoe shape more or less?
@KezyGLA thats fine but in my experience both the "belly button" and "dorsal stripe" method can both be spotty at best with both results ending in dramatically different sexes contrary to what your method believes. This is applied via my own experience and that of friends i have shared experiences with. They definitely aren't as easy as say a theraphosa which is obviously male or female. You are entitled to your opinions.
This is sometimes the case, but I have yet to see a P. met female with light 'dot' area above the furrow, indicating fussilae. Theraphosa is blatantly obvious. Some of the trickier species a Brachys and Grammys. But I find Poecs tend to show more ventrally than most others.
I also take into account the shape of the lungs on the epi plate.
Here is an example with female P. met on left and male on right, for compare
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