Login
Register
Comments & ID Thoughts
Southern black widow?
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Dec 5, 2019
- Photographed: Dec 4, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Spotted Indoors: Garage or shed
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 96831
I don’t think it is a Back Widow . It looks like a False Widow in genus Steatoda. They are in the same family, Theridiidae, but the venom is much weaker than genus Latrodectus. Black Widows have darker bodies with the red ventral “hourglass ” and a line or row of red dots down their backs, sometimes with white circles around the dots and white lines on the sides. Steatoda are brown, gold, or reddish in bright light. The markings are faint gold, silver or faint white, sometimes none are visible. Their underside is mostly gold-colored. The webs are the… Read more »
Thanks for your reply. I also considered a false widow, since i could not see the hourglass from a distance. I will try to be more precise with next photos.
my mistake – I meant to write western black widow