| LC control no. | sh 85014642 |
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| LC classification | QL458.42.T54 Zoology |
| Topical heading | Black widow spider |
| Variant(s) | Deadly spider Hour-glass spider Latrodectus mactans Malmignatte Poison spider Shoe-button spider |
| See also | Widow spiders |
| Found in | Milne, L.J. Audubon Soc. field guide to No. Am. insects and spiders, 1980: p. 877 (black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)) Gertsch, W.J. American spiders, 1979: p. 235 (In No. Am., a principal species is Latrodectus mactans, a name misused to cover several distinctive species of the world but now limited to a species of eastern No. Am, eastern Mexico, and the West Indies) |
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