Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Latrodectus

Latrodectus antheratus (Badcock, 1932)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007799]
  • Distribution: Paraguay, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (Levi, 1959c)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f of Latrodectus carteri (Levi, 1959c)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f of Latrodectus cretaceus (Levi, 1959c)
Taxonomic references
Chacoca antherata Badcock, 1932: 10, f. 5 (Dm).
Chacoca flavodorsata Badcock, 1932: 11, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062434].
Latrodectus carteri Badcock, 1932: 12, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062430].
Latrodectus cretaceus Badcock, 1932: 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062432].
Latrodectus carteri Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 34 (S of Latrodectus cretaceus).
Latrodectus curacaviensis Levi, 1959c: 38, f. 68 (f; misidentified per Abalos, 1980: 43).
Latrodectus antheratus Abalos, 1980: 43, f. 18, 45-55 (mf, removed from S of Latrodectus curacaviensis, rejecting Levi, 1959c: 38, S of Latrodectus carteri and L. flavodorsatus, S of L. cretaceus confirmed; L. carteri, L. cretaceus and L. flavodorsatus removed from S of L. curacaviensis, rejecting Levi, 1959c: 38).
References

Abalos, J. W. (1980). Las arañas del género Latrodectus en la Argentina. Obra del Centenário del Museu de La Plata 6: 29-51. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1959c). The spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 78(1): 7-43. doi:10.2307/3223799 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946b). Arañas del Paraguay. Notas del Museo de la Plata 11(Zool. 91): 17-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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