Is this a female Wolf Spider in your opinion?

spoper

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I redid my enclosure (needed to add more dirt and such) and while I had my Pardosa Hortensis in a small container, I took some pics of its underside.
Looking at pictures of epigyum and then these photos, to me it looks like that's what I'm seeing but I'm no expert. In the last pic you can also see its spinnerets!
What do you think?
 

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Ultum4Spiderz

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I redid my enclosure (needed to add more dirt and such) and while I had my Pardosa Hortensis in a small container, I took some pics of its underside.
Looking at pictures of epigyum and then these photos, to me it looks like that's what I'm seeing but I'm no expert. In the last pic you can also see its spinnerets!
What do you think?
I’m not seeing mature male pedipalps or anything so if it’s full grown then yes 👍 it’s female .
 

spoper

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Oh, it's not full-grown yet, it's about 1cm legspan (0.39 in). I know it's too early to tell from the palps and abdomen shape (it's well round though! I have hopes), so I thought perhaps if I take some closeups of the underside, maybe that could be conclusive.
 

jbooth

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If you can sex them at 1cm I've got about 300 that need sexed :rofl:
 
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