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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Latrodectus  Walckenaer, 1805   9 species

Latrodectus hesperus   Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America. Introduced to Israel, Korea
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"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.

Ireland   (Collier et al., 2023) ||| Netherlands   (Noordijk, 2016) |||
References

Collier B L, Dugon M M, Nolan M, Fort A, Healy K, Vitkauskaite A, Lyons K, Munnelly E J, McSharry L, Dunbar, J P (2023) A history of accidental widow spider (genus Latrodectus) introductions on the island of Ireland with a new Irish record for Latrodectus hesperus (Chamberlin and Ivie, 1935), and additional records of Latrodectus geometricus (C.L. Koch, 1841). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Biology and Environment 123B: 111-120 pdf

Kaston B J (1970) Comparative biology of American black widow spiders. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 16: 33-82 pdf

Noordijk J (2016) Nieuwe vondsten van weduwen Latrodectus in Nederland (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen 47: 17-26 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
03-01-2024 Image insert
03-01-2024 Distribution insert Detail
18-02-2022 Distribution update Detail
06-10-2019 Image insert
29-12-2016 Distribution update Detail