What do male hooks look like?
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I would draw you a sweet picture in paint but I'm at work and don't have access to paint. It would be located on the tibia of the first set of legs. If it's a MM then it will also have emboli (boxing gloves) on it's palps.
If you feel the 'claws' while handling it would be the tarsal hooks that they have at the very end of each set of legs.
Cass
If you feel the 'claws' while handling it would be the tarsal hooks that they have at the very end of each set of legs.
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What you are feeling when he is walking on you are the tarsal claws which are located on the end of each leg. A mature male that has tibial apophysis (hooks) will have them located on the underside of leg I (tibial segment), and you wouldn't feel them as he walked across you. Here are the 'hooks' from a mature male L. violaceopes:
Cass is too quick for me
Cass is too quick for me
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here's a couple more pics.
these are the males hooks:
hooks (and bulbs):
just bulbs (because i like the shot):
but yeah, you wouldn't feel those hooks from a male, you would be feeling the tarsal claws, so,
these are the males hooks:
hooks (and bulbs):
just bulbs (because i like the shot
):
but yeah, you wouldn't feel those hooks from a male, you would be feeling the tarsal claws, so,
pretty much nailed it.
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my MM L difficilis has the largest bulbs and hooks i've ever seen, when i get home i'll do my best to photo them and upload
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Here's my L difficilis' hooks (he wasn't letting me see his bulbs as i've just rehoused him so he was hiding)
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Just to add to the pictures:
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No, he was never mine to begin with. He's probably long dead by now. Sorry.