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Female Steatoda grossa eating flies. Steatoda grossa, commonly known as the cupboard spider, the dark comb-footed spider, the brown house spider (in Australia), or the false widow or false black widow (though several other species are known by these names), is a common species of spider in the genus Steatoda.
Steatoda nobilis is a spider in the genus Steatoda, known in the United Kingdom as the noble false widow, [1] [2] as it superficially resembles and is frequently mistaken for the black widow and other spiders in the genus Latrodectus.
Steatoda paykulliana is a species of false black widow spider in the tangle-web spiders family, [1] native to the Mediterranean countries, Southern Europe and Western Asia. The species is named in honor of the Swedish naturalist Gustaf von Paykull (1757–1826).
Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow. “The northern black widow, Latrodectus variolus, lives in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada,” Crawford says. These females lack the ...
A false black widow is easy to distinguish from a true black widow because it is a dark brown and purple color and does not have a red marking on its abdomen. These too are harmless. American ...
Black widows, once L.A.’s ruling widow, have been pushed out of the urban core by the brown widow over the last 15 years or so, according to Gonzalez. Native black widows are still doing well on ...
A common species in North America, often mistaken for the black widow (despite being smaller and having colored markings on the dorsal side of the abdomen, rather than the ventral side). S. capensis, the black cobweb or false katipo spider.
Elsewhere, others include the European black widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus), the Australian redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) and the closely related New Zealand katipō (Latrodectus katipo), several different species in Southern Africa that can be called button spiders, and the South American black-widow spiders (Latrodectus ...