🕷️Latrodectus geometricus
De bruine weduwe (Latrodectus geometricus), ook wel grijze weduwe genoemd, is een spin uit de familie der kogelspinnen. De bruine weduwe kan gevonden worden in delen van het noordoosten en zuiden van de Verenigde Staten, Australië, Zuid-Afrika, Centraal- en Zuid-Amerika, de Caraïben, diverse eilanden in de Stille Oceaan en Cyprus. De oorsprong van deze soort is onbekend, aangezien de verschillende exemplaren in Afrika en Amerika apart werden ontdekt. De spin wordt veelal aangetroffen tussen gebouwen in tropische gebieden en soms op een Zuid-Afrikaans schip.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Latrodectus geometricus yet.
- 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
Everything we know about the Latrodectus geometricus
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.01 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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.
Not recorded for Latrodectus geometricus yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyTheridiidae
- ›genusLatrodectus
- ›speciesLatrodectus geometricus
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyTheridiidae
- genusLatrodectus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyTheridiidae
- genusLatrodectus
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