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black widow spider
(redirected from Latrodectus hesperus)

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black widow spider
poisonous spider; consumes her mate after mating. [Zoology: NCE, 308]
See : Deadliness


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variolus, see note in LLK: 45 Latrodectus hesperus Brad western North American Chamberlin & Ivie 1935 species, occasionally imported with fruits Lithyphantes L&F transf to Steatoda albomaculatus (DeGeer 1778) Lithyphantes corollatus c32 transf to Steatoda; (Linnaeus 1758) nomen dubium Paidisca unimaculata sni; L&U transf to Thymoites Emerton 1882 Parasteatoda tepidariorum L&F transf to Achaearanea C.
The spider species of the Great Lakes States by Louderman, James / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
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