There is generally only one pair (two in some spiders), and they open on the coxae of the walking legs.
The female is uniformly dark brown apart from paler coxae and patellae.
The legs are sturdy, with large coxae and five claws each.
These are formed by oostegites platelike expansions from the basal segments (coxae) of the appendages.
In most species of tarantula, the pedipalpi contain sharp jagged plates used to cut and crush food often called the coxae or maxillae.
The legs have widely separated coxae, with the procoxae (coxae attached to the prothorax) usually visible dorsally.
In mature females, brood pouches formed by extensions of the coxae (oostegites) are present on the third and fourth pereonites.
Legs resembling those of £, but the spurs on coxae and trochanters less pronounced.
