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How do you tell the sex of a tarantula?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Masculines (adults) have the last segment of the pedipalps bigger (compared to adult feminines of the same species, or subspecies) and flat, transformed in copulatory structures, while feminine ones doesn't.

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