Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Latrodectus

Latrodectus renivulvatus Dahl, 1902

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007822]
  • Distribution: St. Helena, Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
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Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; ff (29260, 29260a) (Levi, 1959c)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; ff of Latrodectus incertus (Levi, 1959c)
Taxonomic references
Latrodectus renivulvatus Dahl, 1902a: 45 (Df).
Latrodectus incertus Lawrence, 1927: 30, pl. 1, f. 19, pl. 4, f. 78-79 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062443].
Latrodectus renivulvatus Lotz, 1994a: 46, f. 5, 12a-c, 13a-c (Dm, f, removed from S of Latrodectus mactans, rejecting Levi, 1959c: 27, S of L. incertus, also removed from S of L. mactans, rejecting Levi, 1959c: 27).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Lotz, 1994b: 16, f. 5, 11a-c, 12a-c (mf).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach & van Harten, 2002: 353, f. 7-8, 39-46 (mf).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach, 2002b: 169, f. 4b (f).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Knoflach, 2004: 184, f. 24a (f).
Latrodectus hasselti Al-Hadlak & Najim, 2015: 94, f. 1-5, pl. 1-2 (f; misidentified after Zamani & El-Hennawy, 2016: 17).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 45, p. 45: 4 f., p. 46: 5 f. (mf habitus).
Latrodectus renivulvatus Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1275, f. 69A-D (f).
References

Al-Hadlak, K. S. & Najim, S. A. (2015). First record of red-back spider Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Basrah, south of Iraq. Journal of Purity, Utility Reaction and Environment 4(2): 91-98. [Al-Hadlag is unified to Al-Hadlak] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1902a). Über abgebrochene Copulationsorgane männlicher Spinnen im Körper der Weibchen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1902: 36-45. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (2002b). Zum Fortpflanzungsverhalten der Kugelspinnen. Gefährlicher Sex. Biologie in unserer Zeit 32(3): 166-173. doi:10.1002/1521-415X(200205)32:3<166::AID-BIUZ166>3.0.CO;2-1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (2004). Diversity in the copulatory behaviour of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 161-256. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. 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

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a
2024-11-04 Species distribution update Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a (Old value)
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z n/a
2017-01-13 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Zamani & El-Hennawy, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2016-12-22 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)