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

Latrodectus renivulvatus Dahl, 1902

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Described:

Distribution: Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq

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Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany ff (29260, 29260a) - (Levi, 1959c)
Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa ff of Latrodectus incertus - (Levi, 1959c)

Taxonomic References

Latrodectus renivulvatus Dahl, 1902a: 45 (Df) Original description

Latrodectus incertus Lawrence, 1927: 30, pl. 1, f. 19, pl. 4, f. 78-79 (Df)

Latrodectus mactans Levi, 1959c: 27 (S, rejected)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Lotz, 1994a: 46, f. 5, 12a-c, 13a-c (removed f from S of L. mactans, Dm, S)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Lotz, 1994b: 16, f. 5, 11a-c, 12a-c (mf)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach & van Harten, 2002: 353, f. 7-8, 39-46 (mf)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach, 2002b: 169, f. 4b (f)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach, 2004: 184, f. 24a (f)

Latrodectus hasselti Al-Hadlak & Najim, 2015: 94, f. 1-5, pl. 1-2 (f; misidentified after Zamani & El-Hennawy, 2016: 17)

Latrodectus renivulvatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 45, p. 45: 4 f., p. 46: 5 f. (mf habitus)

References

Al-Hadlak, K. S. & Najim, S. A. (2015). First record of red-back spider Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Basrah, south of Iraq. Journal of Purity, Utility Reaction and Environment 4(2): 91-98. [[Al-Hadlag is unified to Al-Hadlak]] -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1902a). Über abgebrochene Copulationsorgane männlicher Spinnen im Körper der Weibchen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1902: 36-45. -- Show included taxa

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

Knoflach, B. (2002b). Zum Fortpflanzungsverhalten der Kugelspinnen. Gefährlicher Sex. Biologie in unserer Zeit 32(3): 166-173. doi: 10.1002/1521-415X(200205)32:3<166::AID-BIUZ166>3.0.CO;2-1 -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. & Harten, A. van (2002). The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361. -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (2004). Diversity in the copulatory behaviour of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 161-256. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1959c). The spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 78(1): 7-43. doi: 10.2307/3223799 -- 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

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2023-02-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z
2017-01-13	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Zamani & El-Hennawy, 2016	Old value
2016-12-22	Species distribution update		Old value