Help me sex Potato!
I know I know, there is no pic as of now. There will be, as soon as I can get ahold of someone with a digital camera, 'cause the ones I took with my not-so-nearsighted analog camera were all no es bueno.
So here I am, with a spider I suspect is a male, and I can get a good look whenever I wish by spooking it up onto a glass side, but looking at old sexing-threads and their pictures, and various guides on the net, and then Potato's underside, just gives me a headache.
There are no obvious 'lips' along the epigastric furrow, that I can tell, but it isn't really just a straight line either. The dark area I'm supposed to look for 'anterior' of this furrow (I have no clue what anterior is, lexicon doesn't either, dumb word, but I'm assuming it means, in this case, 'right in the center, just above the furrow') seems inconclusive, at best. The book-lungs furthest up are quite close to each other, but they are also quite tilted.
I suck at this, so if anyone can give me any specific hints to look for, I'd be grateful.
(It was sold as a female, I might add. I must stop trusting seemingly 'respectable' people,,my last T bought here by another collector was a wrong kind of avic but I like her nonetheless(the avic, not the cursed dealer) )
I know I know, there is no pic as of now. There will be, as soon as I can get ahold of someone with a digital camera, 'cause the ones I took with my not-so-nearsighted analog camera were all no es bueno.
So here I am, with a spider I suspect is a male, and I can get a good look whenever I wish by spooking it up onto a glass side, but looking at old sexing-threads and their pictures, and various guides on the net, and then Potato's underside, just gives me a headache.
There are no obvious 'lips' along the epigastric furrow, that I can tell, but it isn't really just a straight line either. The dark area I'm supposed to look for 'anterior' of this furrow (I have no clue what anterior is, lexicon doesn't either, dumb word, but I'm assuming it means, in this case, 'right in the center, just above the furrow') seems inconclusive, at best. The book-lungs furthest up are quite close to each other, but they are also quite tilted.
I suck at this, so if anyone can give me any specific hints to look for, I'd be grateful.
(It was sold as a female, I might add. I must stop trusting seemingly 'respectable' people,,my last T bought here by another collector was a wrong kind of avic but I like her nonetheless(the avic, not the cursed dealer) )
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