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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Latrodectus  Walckenaer, 1805   10 species

Latrodectus cinctus Blackwall, 1865

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007803

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cape Verde, Africa, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lotz 1994)

species

female Epigyne
(Lotz 1994)

species

female Epigyne
(Souri et al. 2024)

species

female Vulva
(Lotz 1994)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Souri et al. 2024)

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.

Morocco   (Lotz, 1994; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Lotz L N (1994) Revision of the genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 10: 1-60 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-02-2024 Image insert
19-05-2022 Distribution update Detail
06-10-2019 Image insert