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L. geometricus (brown button spider) L. rhodesienses (Zimbabwe button spider) L. umbukwane (Phinda button spider) L. geometricus is found in many parts of the world,(including in the United States) and it is known as the brown widow spider. it is unknown where this species' origins are. L. rhodesienses is native to Africa. Both brown button ...
Spiders in the genus Palystes are commonly called rain spiders, or lizard-eating spiders. Palystes spiders will often enter homes before rain, where they will prey on geckos (usually Afrogecko porphyreus in Gauteng, the Western Cape, or Lygodactylus capensis in the eastern parts of southern Africa). [ 5 ]
Other spiders in this genus with potentially medically significant venom include two chiefly European varieties, S. paykulliana and S. nobilis, and a species found mainly in New Zealand and South Africa, S. capensis. [24] Use of widow spider antivenom has been shown effective in treating steatodism. [25]
Loxosceles speluncarum is a species of venomous recluse spider in the family Sicariidae. It is native to South Africa. It resides in caves, and is distinct from the species L. spinulosa. This species of recluse spider features a black violin shape on its back.
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Elsewhere, others include the European black widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus), the Australian redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) and the closely related New Zealand katipÅ (Latrodectus katipo), several different species in Southern Africa that can be called button spiders, and the South American black-widow spiders (Latrodectus ...
Latrodectus indistinctus is a species of spider in the family Theridiidae, found in Namibia and South Africa. [1] It is one of six species of Latrodectus found in southern Africa, four of which, including L. indistinctus, are known as black button or black widow spiders.
Hexophthalma is a genus of spiders in the family Sicariidae. [1] Although the genus was originally erected in 1878 (then with the name Hexomma), it was merged into the genus Sicarius in the 1890s, and remained unused until revived in 2017, when it was discovered that the African species then placed in Sicarius were distinct.