Taxon details
Latrodectus pallidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-10-07
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007820]
- Distribution: Cape Verde to Libya, South Africa, Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia
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Latrodectus pallidus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902c: 253, pl. 26, f. 1.
Latrodectus pallidus pavlovskii Charitonov, 1954: 481, f. 1-2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062453].
Latrodectus pallidus pavlovskii Charitonov, 1955: 244, f. 5 (f).
Latrodectus pallidus Levi, 1959c: 38, f. 22-24, 31, 33-34 (f, S of Latrodectus pallidus pavlovskii).
Latrodectus pallidus Levi, 1966a: 428, f. 5-7, 17-22 (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus Levy & Amitai, 1983: 47, f. 18-23 (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus pavlovskii Ergashev, 1990: 66, f. 32 (m).
Latrodectus pallidus Lotz, 1994a: 43, f. 11a-e (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus Levy, 1998b: 100, f. 183-188 (f).
Latrodectus pallidus Knoflach & van Harten, 2002: 351, f. 6a-b, pl. 54 (f).
Latrodectus pallidus Kakhki, 2005: 54, f. 3A-E (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus Le Peru, 2011: 456, f. 744 (f).
Latrodectus pallidus Zamani et al., 2014: 60, f. 2C, 3C, 4E (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022m: 21, f. 1-12 (mf).
Latrodectus pallidus Souri et al., 2024: 101, f. 1E-F, 2G-I (f).
Latrodectus pallidus Seropian et al., 2024a: 110, f. 37-42 (mf).
Charitonov, D. E. (1954). Novii predstavitel 'roda Latrodectus iz Turkmenii (Latrodectus pallidus O. P. Cambr. subsp. pavlovskii n.). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 33: 480-485. 
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Charitonov, D. E. (1955). Redkii predstavitel paukov poda Latrodectus Walck. (Aranea) iz Turkmenii [A rare representative of spider of the genus Latrodectus Walck. (Aranea) from Turkmenia]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 18: 243-247. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Lotz, L. N., Roux, C. & Webb, P. (2022m). First records of the white widow spider Latrodectus pallidus O.P.-Cambridge, 1872 from South Africa (Araneae: Theridiidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 21-22. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162 -- Show included taxa
Ergashev, N. E. (1990). [Ecology of poisonous spiders from Uzbekistan]. Akademia Nauk, Tashkent, 188 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kakhki, O. M. (2005). New records of three Latrodectus species found in Khorasan province (Araneae: Theridiidae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 1: 52-58. -- Show included taxa
Knoflach, B. & Harten, A. van (2002). The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361. -- Show included taxa
Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1966a). The three species of Latrodectus (Araneae), found in Israel. Journal of Zoology, London 150: 427-432. -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. & Amitai, P. (1983). Revision of the widow-spider genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Israel. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(1): 39-63. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb01720.x -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1998b). Araneae: Theridiidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 228 pp. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902c). On the spiders of the genus Latrodectus, Walckenaer. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 72(I, 1): 247-261, pl. 26-27. -- Show included taxa
Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Krammer, H.-J., Thormann, J., Hein, N., Karalashvili, L., Karalashvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2024a). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.3.e120883 -- Show included taxa
Souri, A. M., Shafaie, S., Moradmand, M. & Mirshamsi, O. (2024). The spider genus Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Theridiidae) in Iran with the first record of Latrodectus revivensis Shulov, 1948. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10(1): 99-109. -- Show included taxa
Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Savoji, A. & Shahi, M. (2014). Contribution to the distribution of spiders with significant medical importance (Araneae: Loxosceles and Latrodectus) in Iran, with a new record for the country. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 10(1): 57-66. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Seropian et al., 2024a | n/a |
| 2024-04-27 | Species distribution update | Seropian et al., 2024a | n/a (Old value) |
| 2024-01-02 | New taxonomic reference entry | Souri et al., 2024 | n/a |
| 2022-10-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022m | n/a |
| 2022-10-05 | Species distribution update | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022m | n/a (Old value) |
| 2020-12-01 | Species distribution update | El-Hennawy, 2020b | n/a (Old value) |
| 2014-09-15 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zamani et al., 2014 | n/a |