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Genus Latrodectus - Widow Spiders

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Class Arachnida - Arachnids

Order Araneae - Spiders

Infraorder Araneomorphae - True Spiders

No Taxon Entelegynes

Family Theridiidae - Cobweb Spiders

Genus Latrodectus - Widow Spiders

Species bishopi - Red Widow
Species geometricus - Brown Widow
Species hesperus - Western Black Widow
Species mactans - Southern Black Widow
Species variolus - Northern Black Widow

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