Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Latrodectus  Walckenaer, 1805   10 species

Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775)

Beschreibung
Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  nicht etabliert
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Probably native to North America only. Introduced to South America, Asia
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Finland  Removed (Zamani & Koponen, 2025) ||| Germany   (Jäger, 2009) ||| Ireland   (Collier et al., 2023) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
Literatur

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

Jäger P (2009) Latrodectus mactans nach Deutschland eingeschleppt (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 35-38 pdf

Levi H W (1967) Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186 pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Koponen S (2025) First Nordic record of Pandava laminata (Araneae: Titanoecidae), with a synopsis of anthropochorous species of spiders in Finland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 69: 5-9 pdf

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