Although I feel that this one is definitely female, I felt it would be best to run it by you all with a lot more experience sexing these than me. This is a far better picture than my last one of this molt.
@Screamingreenmachine actually, you can't see spermatheca from the angle you have her exoskeleton placed. You need to flip it over and take a picture of "inside" the abdominal wall of the exoskeleton. Then, you can see her spermatheca (which is very small- even adult female GBB's have smaller spermatheca than most other species).
@Casey K this actually is the inside of the exoskeleton
This one was a bit on the fat side before the molt and seemed to stretch the "skin" really thin so the hairs were perfectly visible from the inside when the light is shining through. Retook the picture a few moments ago to make sure that it was indeed the inside. I can upload that one in a little while because it seems to have come out far clearer (my hands are getting steadier and my eye keener for the right focus the more I practice with macro photography). The main thing I am focusing on is that dark patch right above the furrow that I was thinking almost looked like the beginning of the spermatheca?
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