
Comments & ID Thoughts
Lactodectus geometricus
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- Submitted: Feb 20, 2018
- Photographed: Feb 20, 2018
- Spider: Latrodectus hesperus (Western Black Widow)
- Location: Cottonwood , 34.688318 -112.051444, Arizona, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal, Ventral
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This looks rather like a Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus) than a Brown Widow (L. geometricus). The median stripe is broken up into spots on the Brown Widow and the white swirls on the sides of the abdomen would wrap around the black spots more.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1160036/bgimage