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Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensbvrgi Et Lipsiae [= Kortensche Buchhandlung, Flensburg & Leipzig] 832 Pp. (Araneae, Pp. 431-441).

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae
family
Theridiidae
genus
Latrodectus
species
Latrodectus mactans

Name

Synonyms
Aranea mactans Fabricius, 1775
Latrodectus agoyangyang Plantilla & Mabalay, 1935
Latrodectus albomaculatus Franganillo, 1930
Latrodectus hahli Dahl, 1902
Latrodectus insularis Dahl, 1902
Latrodectus insularis lunulifer Dahl, 1902
Latrodectus luzonicus Dahl, 1902
Latrodectus mactans albomaculatus Franganillo, 1930
Latrodectus mactans mexicanus Gonzalez, 1954
Latrodectus sagittifer Dahl, 1902
Latrodectus schuchii C.L.Koch, 1836
Homonyms
Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775)
Common names
Amerikanische Schwarze Witwe in German
Den sorte enke in Danish
Southern black widow in English
cobweb spiders in English
southern black widow in English
Oostelijke zwarte weduwe in Dutch
sydlig svart änka in Swedish
Zwarte weduwe in Dutch
svart änka in Swedish
svarta änkan in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Benoit, P.L.G. 1968. La présence en Belgique d'araignées vénimeuses du genre Latrodectus Walck. Africa Tervuren XIV.
  2. Breene, R. G., D. Allen Dean, G. B. Edwards, Blain Hebert, Herbert W. Levi, Gail Manning, et al., 2003: null. Common Names of Arachnids, Fifth Edition. 42.
  3. Nishida (2002), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/tr22.pdf
  4. Platnick (2015) The World Spider Catalog, Version 15
  5. Platnick, Norman I,Berniker, Lily (2014) The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
  6. Sandström (2016) "January update of the chelicerates, excel document ""Dyntaxa uppdatering palpkäkar jan 2016.xlsx"" sent to Johan Liljeblad via e-mail on 2016-01-29"
  7. Van Keer, K. 2007. Exotic spiders (Araneae): Verified reports from Belgium of imported species (1976-2006) and some notes on apparent neozoan invasive species. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging, 22(2):45-54.
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