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Genus: Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Mackay, 1973

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa m - (Mackay, 1973)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1f - (Mackay, 1973)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK mm ff - (Mackay, 1973)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff - (Mackay, 1973)

Taxonomic References

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Mackay, 1973: 239, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Lotz, 1994a: 23, f. 2b-d, 3a-d, 8b (mf)

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Lotz, 1994b: 12, f. 2b-d, 3a-d, 8b (mf)

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Wunderlich, 2008b: 201, f. 46 (m)

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 47, 7 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021z). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 1 A-P. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 69 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7515890 -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (1994a). Revision of the genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 10: 1-60. -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (1994b). The button spiders of southern Africa (Latrodectus: Araneae: Theridiidae). Spider Club News 9(3): 9-16. -- Show included taxa

Mackay, I. R. (1973). A new species of widow spider (genus Latrodectus) from southern Africa (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 79(3, 1972): 236-242. doi: 10.1155/1972/51723 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-02-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z
2021-09-19	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected