Latrodectus geometricus C. L. Koch, 1841
brown widow
| FAMILY: THERIDIIDAE Sundevall, 1833 Genus: Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 Species: Latrodectus geometricus C. L. Koch, 1841  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
cobweb weavers
Genus Common Name:
widow spiders
Species Common Name:
brown widow
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Global Distribution: Cosmopolitan
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Feeding Guild:† space web builders
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Abalos, J. W. 1980. Las arañas del género Latrodectus en la Argentina. Obra Centen. Mus. La Plata 6: 29-51.
Abalos, J. W. 1967. La transferencia esperm tica en las ar cnidos. Revta Univ. nac. Cordoba (2) 9: 251-278.
Abalos, J. W. & E. C. Báez. 1967. Las arañas del genero Latrodectus en Santiago del Estero. Revta Fac. Cienc. exact. fis. nat. Univ. nac. Córdoba 27: 6-30.
Abalos, J. W. & E. C. Báez. 1967. The spider genus Latrodectus in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. In Animal Toxins. Pergamon Press, Oxford, pp. 59-74.
Abalos, J. W. & E. C. Báez. 1963. On spermatic transmission in spiders. Psyche, Camb. 70: 197-207.
Agnarsson, I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 141: 447-626. 
Badcock, A. D. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 38: 1-48.
Biasi, P. de. 1962. Estrutura interna e presença de segmentos do êmbolo no epígino de Latrodectus geometricus (Araneida: Theridiidae). Pap. Avuls. Dept. Zool. S. Paulo 15: 327-331.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1902. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 313-424.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1902. On the spiders of the genus Latrodectus, Walckenaer. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1902(1): 247-261.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1904. Descriptions of some new species and characters of three new genera, of Araneidea from South Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 3: 143-165.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1949. Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentat. pontif. Acad. Scient. 13: 309-492.
Carbonell, J. 1923. Algunos datos sobre las arañas del género Latrodectus que se hallan en la Argentina. Physis 6: 350-353.
Chrysanthus, P. 1963. Spiders from south New Guinea V. Nova Guinea (N.S., Zool.) 24: 727-750.
Gerschman de P., B. S. & R. D. Schiapelli. 1965. El género Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Theridiidae) en la Argentina. Revta Soc. ent. argent. 27: 51-59.
Karsch, F. 1878. Über einige von Herrn JM Hildebrandt im Zanzibargebiete erbeutete Arachniden. Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. 51: 311-322.
Keyserling, E. 1884. Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Nürnberg, 1: 1-222.
Knoflach, B. & A. van Harten. 2002. The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361.
Knoflach, B. & K. Pfaller. 2004. Kugelspinnen -- eine Einführung (Araneae, Theridiidae). In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen under anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12 111-160.
Koch, C. L. 1841. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, Neunter Band, pp. 1-56.
Levi, H. W. 1967. Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacif. Insects 9: 175-186.
Levi, H. W. 1959. The spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Trans. Am. microsc. Soc. 78: 7-43.
Levi, H. W. & L. R. Levi. 1962. The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 127: 1-71.
Levy, G. 1998. Araneae: Theridiidae. In auna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
Levy, G. & P. Amitai. 1983. Revision of the widow-spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Israel. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 77: 39-63.
Lotz, L. N. 1994. Revision of the genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Africa. Navors. nas. Mus., Bloemfontein 10: 1-60.
Lotz, L. N. 1994. The button spiders of southern Africa (Latrodectus: Araneae: Theridiidae). Spider Club News 9(3): 9-16.
Müller, H.-G. 1985. Abgebrochene Emboli in der Vulva der "Schwarzen Witwe" Latrodectus geometricus C. L. Koch 1841 (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae). Ent. Z., Frankf. a. M. 95: 27-30.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Smithers, R. H. N. 1944. Contributions to our knowledge of the genus Latrodectus (Araneae) in South Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 36: 263-312.
Strand, E. 1908. Arachniden aus Madagaskar, gesammelt von Herrn Walter Kaudern. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 453-488.
Thorell, T. 1875. On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 130-149.
Yoshida, H. 2003. The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp.
Zumpt, F. 1968. Latrodectism in South Africa. S. Afr. med. J. 42: 385-390.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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