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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Latrodectus  Walckenaer, 1805   9 species

Latrodectus pallidus  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Description
Male

Palp similar to that of L. tredecimguttatus. Colouration as in female.

Body length male: 3.5-5.5 mm
Female

Vulva: spermathecae diverging. Opisthosoma whitish or pale yellowish, with brown dots arranged in rows. Opisthosoma covered with very short setae.

Body length female: 11-13 mm
Additional information

In shrubs.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cape Verde Is. to Libya, South Africa, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Charitonov D E (1954) Novii predstavitel 'roda Latrodectus iz Turkmenii (Latrodectus pallidus O. P. Cambr. subsp. pavlovskii n.). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 33: 480-485 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Levy G (1998b) Araneae: Theridiidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. , 228 pp. pdf

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 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
03-02-2024 Image insert
16-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
19-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
04-06-2013 Image insert