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- Submitted: Dec 5, 2019
- Photographed: Dec 5, 2019
- Spider: Latrodectus (Widow Spiders)
- Location: West Fork, Arkansas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Latrodectus
(Widow Spiders)
Picture ID 96816
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Latrodectus spp.
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Jul 28, 2023 - Photographed
Jul 12, 2023 
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- Submitted Nov 24, 2023
- Photographed Nov 24, 2023
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- Submitted Apr 23, 2020
- Photographed Apr 23, 2020
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Latrodectus spp.
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- Submitted Apr 23, 2020
- Photographed Apr 23, 2020
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That’s an attractive Black Widow! The mostly red legs are quite nice. It is either Latrodectus variolus or L. mactans.
Is this a rare spider for this area? I had never seen one quite like this.
For your area, Black Widow sightings are relatively rare in general. We only have about three sightings from Arkansas. There are some that have been identified as Latrodectus variolus with red legs in our gallery. That doesn’t exclude the other species in your state from having occasional red legs. If we can’t identify to species level in a way we can qualify, we only go to the level we are confident with. In this case our site moderator and I are only confident to genus level. Genetics is complicated and the new high speed genetic sequencing has changed how organisms… Read more »