Latrodectus curacaviensis (Müller, 1776)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007805

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Described:

Distribution: Caribbean, South America

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  • Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m of Latrodectus foliatus - (Levi, 1959c)
Taxonomic References
Aranea curacaviensis Müller, 1776b: 342 (Df) Original description
Latrodectus curacaviensis Thorell, 1875e: 141 (Dm)
Latrodectus geographicus van Hasselt, 1888: 176, pl. 5, f. 1-4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062515]
Latrodectus geographicus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 379, pl. 35, f. 21-22 (f, Dm)
Latrodectus curacaviensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902c: 254, pl. 27, f. 4 (S of Latrodectus geographicus)
Latrodectus curacaviensis Tullgren, 1905: 27, pl. 3, f. 7 (f)
Latrodectus curacaviensis Carbonell, 1923a: 351, f. 3
Latrodectus foliatus Mello-Leitão, 1940b: 35, f. 33 (Dm; f [pl. I, f. 4] see Latrodectus mactans) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062435]
Latrodectus curacaviensis Levi, 1958: 1055 (removed from S of Latrodectus mactans, rejecting Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1942: 16; S of L. mactans bishopi, revalidated by McCrone & Levi, 1964: 15, sub L. bishopi)
Latrodectus curacaviensis Levi, 1959c: 38, f. 2-4, 16-18, 35-36, 52, 70-71 (mf, f f. 38 see Latrodectus antheratus, other figs. in part misidentified, see L. variolus; S of Chacoca distincta, C. flavodorsata, L. antheratus, L. carteri, L. cretaceus, L. foliatus and L. variegatus; L. antheratus revalidated by Abalos, 1980: 43 with S of L. carteri, L. cretaceus and L. flavodorsatus; L. variegatus removed from S of L. mactans, rejecting F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 378, and revalidated by Abalos, 1980: 47; S of Chacoca = L. distinctus rejected by Abalos, 1980: 49, see L. geometricus)
Latrodectus curacaviensis Carcavallo, 1960: 91, f. 2, 6, 9 (mf)
Latrodectus curacaviensis McCrone & Levi, 1964: 13, f. 1, 16-17 (f)
Latrodectus sp. Bücherl, 1965: 95, f. 1-6 (m)
Latrodectus curacaviensis Abalos, 1980: 46, f. 56 (f)
References

Abalos, J. W. (1980). Las arañas del género Latrodectus en la Argentina. Obra del Centenário del Museu de La Plata 6: 29-51. -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1965). Latrodectus e latrodectismo na América do Sul I. Desçricão do macho da população de Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805, das praias do Rio de Janeiro e da Guanabara. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 32: 95-100. -- Show included taxa

Carbonell, J. (1923a). Algunos datos sobre las arañas del género Latrodectus que se hallan en la Argentina. Physis 6: 350-353. -- Show included taxa

Carcavallo, R. U. (1960). Una nueva Latrodectus y consideraciones sobre las especies del género en la Republica Argentina (Arach. Theridiidae). Neotropica 5: 85-94. -- Show included taxa

Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1888). Araneae exoticae quas collegit, pro Museo Lugdunensi, Dr H. Ten Kate Jr. in Guyanâ Hollandicâ (Suriname). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 31: 165-200. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1958). Number of species of black-widow spiders (Theridiidae: Latrodectus). Science 127: 1055. -- 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

McCrone, J. D. & Levi, H. W. (1964). North American widow spiders of the Latrodectus curacaviensis group (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 71(1): 12-27. doi: 10.1155/1964/86469 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires y de las gobernaciones de La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.,Zool.) 2: 3-62. -- Show included taxa

Müller, P. L. S. (1776b). Des Ritters Carl von Linné, Königlich Schwedischen Leibarztes k. k. vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs. Mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung ausgefertigt. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg, pp. 342-344 (Araneae). -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902c). On the spiders of the genus Latrodectus, Walckenaer. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 72(I, 1): 247-261, pl. 26-27. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875e). On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 43(2): 130-149, pl. 25. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1905). Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras. Arkiv för Zoologi 2(19): 1-81. -- Show included taxa

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