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Black button spider
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- Submitted: Feb 25, 2019
- Photographed: Feb 25, 2019
- Spider: Latrodectus renivulvatus
- Location: Thornhill , South Africa
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Any ideas on this little chap
Latrodectus….
The closest thing i could find was latrodectus tredecimguttatus, but it still looked different.
That one doesn’t appear to be in Africa anyhow. The cool thing I found is that there was a new black widow species found in Africa. It doesn’t appear to have a scientific name yet, the common name is Phinda button spider. It has purple egg sacks.
Beautiful. Black widow species, not sure what specific kind, but definitely a deadly one.
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Wow! Sorry to nitpick.
Tentatively Latrodectus renivulvatus.