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Nice job on setting up that enclosure.
They are easier to sex with palps than operculum. Take a closer look at those operculum photos, it's not even slightly easy like it is with D. diadema or P. barbadensis. If you take a look at that article you'll see the palp difference by gender is listed numerically and is significant. Females have long palps but males are even longer. The only problem is very young mature specimens are difficult to sex with either character.Thank you, wizentrop. I did stumble across a paper that said as much after I posted my question. There is a clear photo of male and female operculum on page 56:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/224608256_Ecology_and_Natural_History_of_the_Tree-inhabiting_Social_Amblypygid_Heterophrynus_Batesii_(Butler_1873_Amblypygi_Phrynidae)_in_Eastern_Amazonian_Ecuador