Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Theridiidae
- Genus: Latrodectus
- Species: Latrodectus tredecimguttatus
Other Common Names
European Black Widow
Author
(Rossi, 1790)
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 3 confirmed sightings of Latrodectus tredecimguttatus (European Black Widow), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 14, 2018 by Spider ID member yasin42. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 3 sightings because of certain Latrodectus tredecimguttatus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 33% of the time, Latrodectus tredecimguttatus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 3)
- Sex: 2 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Latrodectus tredecimguttatus has been sighted 3 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (2).
Location and Range
Latrodectus tredecimguttatus (European Black Widow) has been sighted in the following countries: Turkey.
Seasonality
Latrodectus tredecimguttatus has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January:
- February:
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- April:
- May: 1
- June:
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- September:
- October: 1
- November:
- December: 1