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Brown Widow Spider (Latrodectus geometricus ?) (15239030523)🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeTheridiidae
Arthropods

🕷️Latrodectus geometricus

Latrodectus geometricus C.L.Koch, 1841

אלמנה החומה (נקרא גם: אלמנה אפורה ועכביש הכפתורים החומים; שם מדעי: Latrodectus geometricus) הוא עכביש ממשפחת הכדורניים אשר התגלה לראשונה בשנת 1935. האלמנה החומה ניתנת לזיהוי על ידי מאפיינים ייחודיים ונפוצה במדינות רבות (גם בישראל) . האלמנה החומה ניזונה מחרקים שונים, לשם כך יש לה ארס להרוג את טרפה. נשיכתה אינה מסוכנת לבני אדם (למעט לאוכלוסיות מיוחדות).

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Also called
brown button spider
Conservation status
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Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.01 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Body length
0.01 maverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Abalos & Báez 1967
  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Benjamin & Zschokke 2003
  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Benjamin & Zschokke 2003
  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Benjamin & Zschokke 2003

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyTheridiidae
  6. ›genusLatrodectus
  7. ›speciesLatrodectus geometricus
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. superfamilyAraneoidea
  3. familyTheridiidae
  4. genusLatrodectus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. superfamilyAraneoidea
  7. familyTheridiidae
  8. genusLatrodectus
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Bruine weduwe (nl), Braune Witwe (de), ハイイロゴケグモ (ja), Latrodectus geometricus (fr), Latrodectus geometricus (es), Latrodectus geometricus (it) … and 15 more languages
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