Old names and synonyms

Latrodectus curacaviensis
Latrodectus mactans
Latrodectus mactans hesperus
Latrodectus mactans texanus
Latrodectus variolus

Distribution

North America, Israel

Establishment status in New Zealand

Not established

Links to:

- taxonomic page;
- image gallery (female/male).

References

Kaston BJ 1970. Comparative biology of American black widow spiders. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 16: 33-82.

Levy G, Amitai P 1983. Revision of the widow-spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Israel. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 39-63.

Platnick NI 2013. The world spider catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001.

female dorsal view	female lateral view	female ventral view	male dorsal view
male lateral view	male ventral view