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Black Widow Spider - Latrodectus mactans - female
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Black Widow Spider - Latrodectus mactans - Female
Kingstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, USA
July 21, 2012

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Contributed by funkymoss on 19 December, 2012 - 1:25pm
Last updated 13 August, 2013 - 4:25am

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Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans)
The Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans) has the classic red hourglass shape on her "belly", while in the Northern Black Widow (Latrodectus variolus), her hourglass is almost always separated into two separate triangles.

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