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- Submitted: Apr 6, 2019
- Photographed: Apr 6, 2019
- Spider: Latrodectus (Widow Spiders)
- Location: Cochabamba , Bolivia
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Latrodectus
(Widow Spiders)
Picture ID 56058
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Latrodectus spp.
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Apr 23, 2020 - Photographed
Apr 23, 2020 
Male
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Belews Creek, 
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- Submitted Apr 23, 2020
- Photographed Apr 23, 2020
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- Submitted Jul 28, 2023
- Photographed Jul 12, 2023
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- Submitted Nov 24, 2023
- Photographed Nov 24, 2023
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Hi, tentative to species but this looks like a South American Widow Spider, Latrodectus curacaviensis. I need to make a page for this to file it properly when I have more time.
I got a reply on another forum, which identified it as a Latrodectus mirabilis. From what I’ve seen and read, this seems to be correct. Thank you!
You’re welcome. Range-wise curacaviensis is a likely candidate, after looking over diagrams in “Abalos, 1980” this morning though I’m going to refrain from placing to species because the closest match I see to the abdominal pattern in there is L. quartus (fig. 40). The paper shows an isolated range for that species in Argentina so I initially overlooked it but I don’t want take a chance and misfile it. They can be tricky when the abdominal patterns have so much variation within just one species and there aren’t a lot of reliably IDed images for me to compare to.