Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Latrodectus

Latrodectus rhodesiensis Mackay, 1973

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-02-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007824]
  • Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; m (Mackay, 1973)
  • Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 1f (Mackay, 1973)
  • Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; mm ff (Mackay, 1973)
  • Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; mm ff (Mackay, 1973)
Taxonomic references
Latrodectus rhodesiensis Mackay, 1973: 239, f. 1-8 (Dmf).
Latrodectus rhodesiensis Lotz, 1994a: 23, f. 2b-d, 3a-d, 8b (mf).
Latrodectus rhodesiensis Lotz, 1994b: 12, f. 2b-d, 3a-d, 8b (mf).
Latrodectus rhodesiensis Wunderlich, 2008b: 201, f. 46 (m).
Latrodectus rhodesiensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 47, 7 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021z). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 1 A-P. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 69 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7515890 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (1994a). Revision of the genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 10: 1-60. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lotz, L. N. (1994b). The button spiders of southern Africa (Latrodectus: Araneae: Theridiidae). Spider Club News 9(3): 9-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mackay, I. R. (1973). A new species of widow spider (genus Latrodectus) from southern Africa (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 79(3, 1972): 236-242. doi:10.1155/1972/51723 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z n/a
2021-09-19 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)