Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959
Description
Female
Adult females usually are uniformly black, with only the tibiae and tarsi a little lighter, reddish brown. Abdominal hairs long, straight and pointed.
Body length female: 3.7-5.5 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger & Gromov 2011)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Epigyne
(Souri et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger & Gromov 2011)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Souri et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Setae of opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Knoflach & van Harten 2002)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Jäger P, Gromov V (2011) First records of Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959 from Morocco, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 188-192
Knoflach B, Harten A van (2002) The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Souri, A. M., Shafaie, S., Moradmand, M. & Mirshamsi, O (2024) The spider genus Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Theridiidae) in Iran with the first record of Latrodectus revivensis Shulov, 1948. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10: 99-109
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Esyunin S L, Mikhailov K G, Marusik Y M (2024a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XI. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10: 285-309