Sexing an exuvium, is this correct?

[Jennifer Todd]

Hi everyone

I'm trying to sex an exuvium for the first time and wondering if I'm correct. This is a Brachypelma albopilosum juv. I think female because I think I can see spermathecae. These are only mobile phone pictures and the second photo has a torch held behind the paper. I have looked at loads of images online and still think it's very hard to tell the difference between male and female.

[mary walters]

Thats a female

[Zoltan Mihaly Lestyan]

Hello,

There's definitely something in the second picture, so it looks like a female. Next time, focus on the area between the anterior (in this picture, top) pair of booklungs. It's not really hard after you get the hang of it. There's a nice spermathecae gallery in the sexing section on Mikhail F. Bagaturov's page, it might make it easier if you know what kind of shape you are looking for.

[Jennifer Todd]

Thank you Mary and Zoltan, that gallery is very useful

[Colin D Wilson]

Hi Jennifer, Mikhails gallery is quite useful for ascertaining the spermatecae shape of the more commonly kept species.
Looks to me like you have a little lady there as well