Sexing

 

Male Agamura persica	Male pre-anal pores
Female Agamura persica
Juvenile male Agamura persica (8 weeks)	Juvenile female Agamura persica (8 weeks)

Sexing Agamura persica is easy for adults but a little more difficult for juveniles.

Male Agamura persica have an obvious hemipenal bulge that you can see from a side profile. The thin morphology of the spider gecko makes the bulge even more noticeable.

According to Szczerbak and Golubev (1986), male Agamura persica also have 2 to 4 pre-anal pores. Most of my captive bred males have a single pore but my wild-caught males have 2.

Female Agamura persica lack a bulge and pre-anal pores entirely.

Juveniles also lack this bulge. However by about the 8th to 12th week (roughly 7-8 cm SVL) male juveniles will begin to show slight bulging although it may happen as late as the 4th to 6th month.

Basically, if you have a male you know it. If you have a female you may not know for several months.

Szczerbak, N.N., Golubev, M.L.. Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Contiguous Regions. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1986.