Unidentified

Picture ID 152123

Picture of unidentified spider

Comments & ID Thoughts

Northern Black Widow? Found on the ground in the woods.

  • Submitted by: 
    gt7577a
  • Submitted: Nov 7, 2021
  • Photographed: Nov 7, 2021
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Nelson County, Virginia, United States
  • Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Forest
  • Found in web?: No
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TangledWeb

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1999 This appears to be Latrodectus mactans, a Southern Black Widow because the second orange spot is (roughly) longer than wide. This isn’t the scientific way to tell the two Black Widow Species in Virginia apart. So, I don’t really know. The info I attached may help. BugGuide is an older site than ours and has many more images and more range data points than we have.