Voorbeelden van coxae

• Coxo-sternal shows coxae of left side, sternum not preserved.

• The coxae of the walking legs are grouped around this sternum.

• Abdomen shortly ovate, pediculus more than \\ as long as hind coxae.

• Fore and mid coxae and trochanters pale.

• Chelicerae present as narrow grooves between the slightly separated leg 1 coxae.

• Coxae, trochanters and femora with testaceous suffusion and the black pigmentation of tibiae and tarsi more extensive than in the first stage.

• Legs light brown except coxae brown, femora, in particular hind femur, lighter brown and tibiae slightly darkened.

• Legs resembling those of £, but the spurs on coxae and trochanters less pronounced.

• In mature females, brood pouches formed by extensions of the coxae (oostegites) are present on the third and fourth pereonites.

• The legs have widely separated coxae, with the procoxae (coxae attached to the prothorax) usually visible dorsally.

• In most species of tarantula, the pedipalpi contain sharp jagged plates used to cut and crush food often called the coxae or maxillae.

• These are formed by oostegites platelike expansions from the basal segments (coxae) of the appendages.

• The legs are sturdy, with large coxae and five claws each.

• The female is uniformly dark brown apart from paler coxae and patellae.

• There is generally only one pair (two in some spiders), and they open on the coxae of the walking legs.