BLACK WIDOW / TRUE WIDOW SPECIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Kingdom:
Animalia 1. Latrodectus antheratus - Black Widow - (Paraguay, Argentina) 2. Latrodectus apicalis - Galapagos Black Widow - (Galapagos Islands) 3. Latrodectus bishopi - Red Widow - (Florida, USA) 4. Latrodectus cinctus - African Black Widow / Black Button Spider - (southern Africa, Cape Verde and Kuwait) 5. Latrodectus corallinus - South American Black Widow - (Argentina) 6. Latrodectus curacaviensis - South American Black Widow / Brazilian Black Widow - (South America) 7. Latrodectus dahli - Dahl's Widow - (Morocco, to Central Asia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Greece & Cyprus) 8. Latrodectus diaguita - (Argentina) 9. Latrodectus elegans - (East Asia, China & Japan) 10. Latrodectus erythromelas - (Sri Lanka) 11. Latrodectus garbae - (Dry forests of Colombia) New Species 12. Latrodectus geometricus - Brown Widow / Geometric Brown Button Spider - (Africa, with introductions to the Americas, Poland, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Cyprus and Hawaii) 13. Latrodectus hasselti - Redback Spider / Australian Black Widow - (Australia) 14. Latrodectus hesperus - Western Black Widow - (USA, Mexico, Western Canada) 15. Latrodectus hurtadoi - (Dry forests of Colombia) New Species 16. Latrodectus hystrix - (Yemen, Socotra) 17. Latrodectus indistinctus - Black Button Spider - (South Africa) 18. Latrodectus karrooensis - Black Button Spider - (South Africa) 19. Latrodectus katipo - Katipo or Red Katipo Spider - (New Zealand) 20. Latrodectus lilianae - Moroccan Black Widow Spider - (Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, Spain & Morocco) 21. Latrodectus mactans - Southern Black Widow - (USA) 22. Latrodectus menavodi - Madagascan Black Widow - (Madagascar) 23. Latrodectus mirabilis - (South America) 24. Latrodectus obscurior - (Cape Verde and Madagascar) 25. Latrodectus occidentalis - (Mexico) 26. Latrodectus pallidus - White Widow - (Middle East, Central Asia & North Africa) 27. Latrodectus quartus - (Argentina) 28. Latrodectus renivulvatus - (Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) 29. Latrodectus revivensis - Black Button Spider - (Israel, Palestine) 30. Latrodectus rhodesiensis - Brown Button Spider - (Zimbabwe) 31. Latrodectus thoracicus - (Chile) 32. Latrodectus tredecimguttatus - European Widow / Mediterranean Widow - (Mediterranean Area) 33. Latrodectus umbukwane - Phinda button spider - (Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) New species 2019 34. Latrodectus variegatus - (Chile, Argentina) 35. Latrodectus variolus - (USA, Canada) |