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![]() Males have larger pectines which have more 'teeth' and provide a more comblike appearance than females. To sex your scorpion with the minimum amount of stress gently coax it into a cricket tub/takeaway container etc and then you can easily see the pectines (which are underneath the scorpion just before the last set of legs) and this also helps when taking pictures for definite ID.
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in some species, if i'm not wrong, the pectines are not different enough to tell apart, if at all.
if people could post their data about individual species like this, it'd be great! i have a number of unsexed individuals of the following spp, and i'm unsure how to sex, whether by pectine or other method. Opistophthalmus wahlbergi Caraboctonus keyserlingi Bothriurus keyserlingi Bothriurus coriaceus Iomachus politus Hadrugenes paucidens (i think. sold as troglodytes, but not convinced) Vaejovis spinigerus one of the problems is being unable to compare to sexed individuals, so pics would help
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Incidently, this is also similar to how you sex whip scorpions (uropygids).
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