Western Ghats, an Indian biodiversity hotspot is a treasure trove of varied life forms, among which spiders despite their rich diversity have received less attention. Their cryptic behavior, sexual dimorphism, and unavailability of taxonomic keys for juveniles pose a major challenge to their documentation. Conventional taxonomy is limited by morphological similarities between some species, while molecular taxonomy is a laboratoryintensive and prohibitively expensive approach. Adult spiders show a clear sexual dimorphism, with males being smaller than females and/or more colourful in some families. However, one consistent distinguishing feature between the sexes is the shape of their paired pedipalps, which are situated anterior to the first pair of walking legs and lateral to the chelicerae. There is also an established functional difference in these structures; which in females aid in probing substrate and prey, while additionally serve as intromittent structures in males. The construct of the male pedipalp is species-specific and these morphological variations can offer a valuable clue in taxonomic studies. The present investigation reports structural variations in pedipalpal morphology of seven spider species occurring in Western Ghats of Goa; belonging to five families, namely Sparassidae, Theraphosidae, Nephilidae, Salticidae and Hersiliidae. This work if scaled up, can help establish a 'referral database' of species-specific palpal morphology that can aid in spider taxonomy, as also help understand selection pressures and trajectory of evolution in this group.