Sexing Poecilotheria metallica sling

[octanejunkie]

This 'suspected female' I got from @Casey K. a while back recently molted. Here are a few pics of the its exo

P metallica do have fused spermatheca, and there's a little something there that I confirmed wasn't dirt or setae...
What y'all think, was she right?

 

[Arachnoclown]

 

[Spots]

Hmm, very different than my P.Met female, although yours seems much younger than mine; mine is adult female.

 

[WolfSpider]

@plessey ?

 

[octanejunkie]

Hmm, very different than my P.Met female, although yours seems much younger than mine; mine is adult female.

That molt is from a 2" individual

 

[Spots]

That molt is from a 2" individual

Yeah, I was thinking yours was around 2", but why would it look so different?
Does age or size have anything to do with it? Very curious.

 

[octanejunkie]

Yeah, I was thinking yours was around 2", but why would it look so different?
Does age or size have anything to do with it? Very curious.

Age and size have everything to do with it as sexual maturity is a process of, well, maturation. Sex organs grow and develop over time. No animal I am aware of is "born ready" to copulate and reproduce.

 

[Spots]

Age and size have everything to do with it as sexual maturity is a process of, well, maturation. Sex organs grow and develop over time. No animal I am aware of is "born ready" to copulate and reproduce.

Good point!

 

[plessey]

@plessey ?

Looks like 2 accessory organs and a gonopore to me.

 

[Spots]

I see you have 6 P.Mets, are they all in the 2" mark?

 

[Spots]

Looks like 2 accessory organs and a gonopore to me.

Which means male or female?

 

[octanejunkie]

I see you have 6 P.Mets, are they all in the 2" mark?

Give or take, I have 9

 

[Spots]

Give or take, I have 9

Wow! What size are they?

 

[octanejunkie]

Wow! What size are they?

All between 1.5" and 3" basically

 

[plessey]

Which means male or female?

Read this then you tell me

How to sex your tarantula

The only real accurate way to sex a tarantula is by examining the epigynal area located between the anterior book lungs of the tarantulas shed skin but to do this you must first know what you are looking for. FEMALE ANATOMY This is a picture of the female sex organs located between the...

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[Spots]

Read this then you tell me

How to sex your tarantula

The only real accurate way to sex a tarantula is by examining the epigynal area located between the anterior book lungs of the tarantulas shed skin but to do this you must first know what you are looking for. FEMALE ANATOMY This is a picture of the female sex organs located between the...

tarantulaforum.com

Very nice! Great info! Thanks!
I was leaning this P.Met as a male when I saw those "eye stalks", but was not sure.