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
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