Latrodectus pallidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Description
Male
Palp similar to that of L. tredecimguttatus. Colouration as in female.
Body length male: 3.5-5.5 mmFemale
Vulva: spermathecae diverging. Opisthosoma whitish or pale yellowish, with brown dots arranged in rows. Opisthosoma covered with very short setae.
Body length female: 11-13 mmAdditional information
In shrubs
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Charitonov 1954)
Pedipalp
(Charitonov 1954)
Pedipalp, apical view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1998b)
Epigyne
(Souri et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Souri et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Levy 1998b)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Charitonov D E (1954) Novii predstavitel 'roda Latrodectus iz Turkmenii (Latrodectus pallidus O. P. Cambr. subsp. pavlovskii n.). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 33: 480-485 
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Levy G (1998b) Araneae: Theridiidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. , 228 pp.
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118
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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2