I'm A Mother! Again... (D. diadema)

[M.F.Bagaturov]

"synonymous"???
"slight difference in patterning on their body"???

No, You're just too lazy to look into the paper linked on the previous page of this thread...

 

[AbraxasComplex]

"synonymous"???
"slight difference in patterning on their body"???

No, You're just too lazy to look into the paper linked on the previous page of this thread...

Actually I did... I mentioned it in the post right above your's.

I did mess up on size difference. I made the error of saying D.variagatus was larger than D.diadema:

The largest species is D.diadema (reaching nearly 30 mm; Fig. 1).


And better yet here is some other info to help distinguish.

D. diadema bears two ventral spines on the pedipalp trochanter, a character shared with D. brachilis. The remaining species (D. annulatipes, D. gracilis, D. longispinatus and D. variegatus s. l.) display only one ventral spine on the pedipalp trochanter


Although some other breeders and articles suggested a difference in banding on the body/legs.