Identification of The Reproductive Apparatus of Tarantula Genus Brachypelma Using Linear Discriminant Analysis Method

Tarantulas are animals that rely on exoskeleton for muscle support. Tarantula has two male and female reproductive apparatus. Male tarantulas have a short span of time, compared to female tarantulas that have a long life span. Brachypelma is a species of tarantula that has its own uniqueness or characteristic that in most male and female appearance is an almost identical tarantula, which are not visible the difference of the reproductive apparatus by naked eye. The problem in this paper is the difficult to identify the reproductive apparatus of the tarantula. To identify the reproductive apparatus of tarantula is not a cushy due to identify the reproductive apparatus of tarantula takes a long-time, even when they fail to molting the consequences is death. The goal of our work is to identify and predict the reproductive apparatus of the tarantula. In this research, we used the data collected by direct observation. Using the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) method, we are identifying the reproductive apparatus by using discriminant function. The results of the experiment show, our proposed method performs more accurate than other methods (i.e.85%) with faster execution time of 2.1 Sec.