Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Theridiidae
- Genus: Latrodectus
- Species: Latrodectus hasselti
Other Common Names
Redback Spider
Author
Thorell, 1870
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 6 confirmed sightings of Latrodectus hasselti (Redback Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 5, 2019 by Spider ID member aodea. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 6 sightings because of certain Latrodectus hasselti sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 50% of the time, Latrodectus hasselti spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 6)
- Sex: 1 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Latrodectus hasselti has been sighted 2 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (2).
Location and Range
Latrodectus hasselti (Redback Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia.
Seasonality
Latrodectus hasselti has been primarily sighted during the month of January.
- January: 2
- February: 2
- March:
- April: 1
- May:
- June: 1
- July:
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- October:
- November:
- December: