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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Latrodectus  Walckenaer, 1805   9 species

Latrodectus mactans  (Fabricius, 1775)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007816

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Probably native to North America only. Introduced to South America, Asia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1967)

species

female Epigyne
(Levi 1967)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levi 1967)

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.

Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Ireland   (Collier et al., 2023) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Collier B L, Dugon M M, Nolan M, Fort A, Healy K, Vitkauskaite A, Lyons K, Munnelly E J, McSharry L, Dunbar, J P (2023) A history of accidental widow spider (genus Latrodectus) introductions on the island of Ireland with a new Irish record for Latrodectus hesperus (Chamberlin and Ivie, 1935), and additional records of Latrodectus geometricus (C.L. Koch, 1841). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Biology and Environment 123B: 111-120 pdf

Levi H W (1967) Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186 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
03-01-2024 Distribution insert Detail
10-06-2023 Image insert
10-06-2023 Distribution insert Detail