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Bamboo
Pandinus
Number of posts : 33
Age : 52
Location : Austin , Texas
Registration date : 2013-08-17
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shadowfoot
Parabuthus
Number of posts : 1296
Age : 32
Location : South Africa
Registration date : 2012-01-18
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/15/2013, 12:49 am | |
| 100% male. If you look at the claws you can see they are bulbous/round, females have thin claws compared to the males. | |
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Bamboo
Pandinus
Number of posts : 33
Age : 52
Location : Austin , Texas
Registration date : 2013-08-17
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/15/2013, 1:17 am | |
| But I have females of various species that have bulbous/round claws .. that's why I added a ventral shot. But you're probably right , that's what I thought at first but the guy swore up and down it's a female ... | |
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Andrew Leigh
Centruroides
Number of posts : 107
Age : 64
Registration date : 2012-01-03
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/15/2013, 3:21 am | |
| - shadowfoot wrote:
- 100% male. If you look at the claws you can see they are bulbous/round, females have thin claws compared to the males.
+1, simply no question. | |
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shadowfoot
Parabuthus
Number of posts : 1296
Age : 32
Location : South Africa
Registration date : 2012-01-18
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/15/2013, 4:12 am | |
| - Bamboo wrote:
- But I have females of various species that have bulbous/round claws .. that's why I added a ventral shot. But you're probably right , that's what I thought at first but the guy swore up and down it's a female ...
Not all scorpions show this sexual dimorphism through chela size but most Parabuthus sp do. | |
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Bamboo
Pandinus
Number of posts : 33
Age : 52
Location : Austin , Texas
Registration date : 2013-08-17
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/15/2013, 10:23 am | |
| I'll be looking for a female or two for him... thanks guys ! | |
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Kale
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 80
Age : 42
Location : Ga
Registration date : 2011-01-25
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/16/2013, 7:25 am | |
| A good way to sex parabuthus in most species except two I believe, is by the basal middle lamalla. It is very pronounced in the females. The one you have in the picture is surely a male. | |
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lweigle
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 56
Age : 33
Registration date : 2011-06-22
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/16/2013, 7:47 pm | |
| - Bamboo wrote:
- But I have females of various species that have bulbous/round claws .. that's why I added a ventral shot. But you're probably right , that's what I thought at first but the guy swore up and down it's a female ...
A good rule of thumb at least when i deal with scorpions and person to person. assume they know nothing. I cant tell you how many times this has served me well. But yes 100% male. | |
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Tongue Flicker
Parabuthus
Number of posts : 1106
Age : 37
Location : Madina't Isa, Bahrain
Registration date : 2012-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Parabuthus transvaalicus sex ?? 9/17/2013, 3:00 am | |
| yup i can say 100% male as well.. just got a male a couple of weeks ago hehe  | |
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